Just You and Me now... Promise! (2016)

Power to the Beholder, 2016

Installation

 

Power to the Beholder is an installation in two parts that was realised for an exhibition about the time of the so-called cabinets (of wonder) and the practice of uncurated collecting. It reflects on the ever-present taking of ones personal image, knowingly/willingly or not.

 

The first part – Just You and Me now… promise! – consists of a pitch-black room, wherein the viewer only sees two little spots of light, that upon inspection turn out to be peep boxes. One showing the viewer's own eye in a mirror's reflection the other showing a cctv-pictogram. Depending on the order in which the images are seen the viewer will see the work in a different way.

 

All the while the room is indeed filmed by an infrared camera that transfers a video stream of the room – with a lag of several minutes – to the second part of the installation – Beholder – where the viewers might see themselves in the previous room. That way the initial suspicion of being filmed as well as the discovery of the viewers own image in the stream becomes coincidental.

Beholder (2016)

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Just You and Me now... Promise! (2016)

Beholder (2016)

Power to the Beholder, 2016

Installation

 

Power to the Beholder is an installation in two parts that was realised for an exhibition about the time of the so-called cabinets (of wonder) and the practice of uncurated collecting. It reflects on the ever-present taking of ones personal image, knowingly/willingly or not.

 

The first part – Just You and Me now… promise! – consists of a pitch-black room, wherein the viewer only sees two little spots of light, that upon inspection turn out to be peep boxes. One showing the viewer's own eye in a mirror's reflection the other showing a cctv-pictogram. Depending on the order in which the images are seen the viewer will see the work in a different way.

 

All the while the room is indeed filmed by an infrared camera that transfers a video stream of the room – with a lag of several minutes – to the second part of the installation – Beholder – where the viewers might see themselves in the previous room. That way the initial suspicion of being filmed as well as the discovery of the viewers own image in the stream becomes coincidental.