In a collaboration with Rebecca Eskilsson we questioned and reflected on staring and being stared at by creating a simple platform to experience the being of a sculpture. Inspired by the theory on the gaze, I remembered a game I had played as a kid:
I’m sitting in a bus, staring at random people, hoping for them to look at me, initiating the game „who looks away first loses“.
Intrigued by British biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s theory on „The Sense of Being Stared At“, we created a series of photographs, documenting this particular phenomenon. We presented the work in a group exhibition titled „Eye See You“ in Not in New York, Rotterdam (NL) run by Charlie Koolhaas.
An increase in height allows me to see more.
I have power.
An increase in height enables me to protrude.
I have power and people have power.
With an increase in height I protrude evidently.
I am an optional centre of attention.
I can stare, but I can also be stared at.
I can play a game.
I decide who’s being stared at.
I can win.
People can win.
I can lose.
They can lose
I have power.
They have power over me.