Reflections @ 24fps​

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This is a dual projection work developed around the concept of self-identity in the wake of the digital age. By delaying the presentation of the viewers’ reflection by just a few seconds, using a webcam and a projector in a closed-circuit video loop, the viewers’ attention is turned towards how they are perceived by others. This impression of ourselves is something we rarely see and it invites the viewers to become conscious of their embodiment in space and experience a different way of seeing themselves and learn something new about themselves. This slight stretching of time creates an intervention in one’s perception of reality that makes apparent the inherent distortions of the digital image and the mirror image; oscillating between being a private experience yet a phenomenon everyone experiences, of recognising themself in their digital/analog reflections. With this work I am interested in creating an immersive environment that includes the body and video’s relationship to space and the medium’s capacity for transforming viewers’ perception of self and of duration as soon as they enter this loop. It also questions the status of the photographic image and its effect on our social and self-identity in the post-digital age. This allows the participants to become aware of the dissonance that already exists between the mental self-image and the outward representation of ourselves within the technologically saturated image-based world.