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Ob-, 2016 (3 videos, segments)

Video Installation
Up to 21 videos projected onto all walls of a room covered in white

“Do not look at me. 
Look at what I am doing. 
That is my true self
—or maybe no self at all, 
        maybe the absence of the self.”

I look at you.
Look at you looking at me.
That is a spectacle
—or maybe no spectacle at all, 
        maybe the absence of the spectacle.


*First paragraph excerpted from “Art Workers: Between Utopia and the Archive” by Boris Groys, 2013.

Each video was shot on different days. I videotaped myself while watching myself from the camcorder's display screen. While I am being videotaped, I was thinking through random things that happen in my life and I would stop videotaping when I finished my reflection.
Ob-, 2016 (3 videos, segments)
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Ob-, 2016 (3 videos, segments)

Each video was shot at different days. I videotaped myself while watching myself from the camcorder's display screen. While I am being videotaped Read More

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