CIRCLE

In my room installation an ordinary shopping cart stands at the center, an object we know as a vehicle of consumption and supply which here however becomes a funeral bier. It is filled to the brim with white bags that pile up and in their anonymous formlessness recall both construction material and physicality. It is a fragile architecture of the provisional. Around this object I have installed a system of security cameras. They form a technological periphery that does not remain passive. As soon as one approaches the installation they react. They follow the movements of the viewers turning and fixing their gaze.

I am interested here in the shift of power dynamics: the object in the cart, perhaps a private possession or perhaps a collective remnant, seems to be protected yet the cameras simultaneously create a barrier of surveillance. Who is observing whom? At the moment one attempts to grasp the material and its texture one becomes a data point in the system. I am concerned with this threshold between intimacy and control. The white bags remain silent almost ghostly in their neutrality while the mechanics of the cameras unfold an aggressive presence. I want to force visitors to confront their own position in the space: am I a witness to a precarious situation or am I already being marked as a potential disruption? The installation thus becomes a feedback loop of curiosity, distance, and the constant feedback of the technical gaze.