Eyeing the Caught Sight is a video essay about the act of staring. Mirror installations stare in different landscapes. The mirrors don't look themselves, but they capture — creating a layered visual space where both literal and mental reflection becomes possible. The mirror creates a kind of fictional space - a fictional interior within the outside world - which is exactly what staring does as well.
Through recurring spatial compositions and roaming subtitle texts, the video invites you to let your gaze linger. To interrupt the speed of looking, feeling relatedness to the ordinary, to notice all forms of agency. To follow the act of looking without immediate understanding.
foto's: Matthijs van der Burgt
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