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change my way of seeing I

video installation with ambient sound, 2011
3 min

change my way of seeing I was shot with a super 8 camera held by the artist at arms length and turned around 180 degrees. The artist is looking at the sun trough the lens. Hence it is the sun "looking" trough the viewfinder at the artist's eye. This performance lasts three minutes, the length of one roll of super 8 film. The film captures the uncomfortable blinking of a dazzled eye as the rays of the sun finds its way trough the optics and shines straight into the artist's pupil. The analogue film transforms this into a whiteness where pain meets beauty. The role where an artist normally looks at the world trough a viewfinder is now turned around.