In Terms and Conditions, Mr Phantom gives physical weight to the agreements routinely accepted with little thought or scrutiny. A solitary child stands before an immense document, dwarfed by language that is technically available yet practically inaccessible, while heavy chains gather at its base. The child’s signature introduces a deliberate tension between innocence and accountability, asking how meaningful consent can be when understanding is absent. By enlarging a mundane feature of digital life to an almost architectural scale, the artist exposes the imbalance between the individual and the systems that dictate the conditions of participation. The work becomes a wider examination of privacy, personal agency and the ease with which rights can be surrendered through a single act of acceptance.
