the touch of proximity
interior with red sofa
los labios de su boca...
ojos que no ven
as inside as the eye
can see(video)
as inside as the eye
can see(photo)
as inside as the eye can see
HD video
7 min
2009
Special thanks to Nadia Hotait and Julio Obelleiro.
The video installation “As Inside as the Eye can See” presents two eyes trying to see each other as close as they can. The avidity of “seeing” the “other”, of entering in his/her space and trying to understand, or even share, the other person’s intimacy through the gaze, turns out to be an effort in vain because without distance we cannot see. We find ourselves in a paradox: so close but unable to see more than a blurred image.
In this work the obsession to see closely the other person, has a visual blindness as consequence. The gaze becomes now more of an haptic sense, perceiving the other not through the sight but through the rubbing between the eyelashes. The resulting image embodies a physical eye that beats, touches and relates intimately.
Shown at:
Videonale.13 at Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany), April 14th-May 28th 2011
Videonale.13 at Katowice (Poland), May 18th-June 26th 2011
VAD, International Video Art Festival of Girona, Spain. October 7th-16th 2010
LG Space,Chicago (USA). September 2nd-23rd 2010
Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, USA. September 11th 2010