You’re standing on the top floor of an overseeing tower, in the middle of a circular hollow prison. There are many stairs and many cells surrounding you. You randomly choose which cells to supervise; you watch some of them ceaselessly, while you merely notice others. However, every single prisoner is feeling constantly watched. Why is that so? Because they cannot see whether you’re looking at them or not.
We’re used to believing that for every action, there is a consequence; that an event follows the one before it in a logical, natural manner. Indeed, in order to follow an unknown story, it is necessary to go through it in this way; but in order to fully understand it, we need to return to certain parts of it later on. Here’s when a strange phenomenon occurs: we see everything all at once, but also separately. This raises an important question: is the order of events truly relevant to a story? Can we describe everything through cause and consequence?
I choose to give you some space to think about what you are seeing. This story is all about the mood, there’s barely any action. The result will always be the same, no matter what you choose to begin or to end with, no matter what you decide to look at and what to ignore. And in the end, these choices will speak about you and your own experience.
Photos taken at my solo exhibition which was open during a contest organized by my university.
