NON-VISIONS
virtual world, video installation
2022
artbiom prague
denisa půbalová
tomáš samek
ladislav nový
klára spěváková
exhibitions:
lidé jsou křehké bytosti, ale měkké cíle, artbiom, pragovka gallery (18. 9. 2022 - 17. 12. 2022)
There is no default vision. Snake's thermal vision. Fly's multi-eyes. Human colors, color blindness, blindness. Historical, geographical, diasporic, and political views. Octopus thinking and seeing with tentacles. Scientific and medical institutions that define the vision. The protagonists of the horrors cover their vision from terror. AI sight (camera, tik tok, AI painters). The sight of awakened beings. Biological, cultural, and hypothetical eyes and visions.
Our project aims to co-create a space that will materialize the vision of nonhuman and human creatures without claiming the effort to represent. The optical differences projected into the space can help us visualize more shared worlds that would consider the diversity of sight, expand the meaning of sight, and provide a platform for its new experience.
Precisely because we cannot represent others' eyesights but only translate, it should raise questions about how we understand vision diversity. We test the hypothesis that we can develop our sight by moving through space that is not necessarily adapted to our visual experience. By building rooms, furniture, tunnels, and burrows in the shapes and colors which are not due to our customs, we will look at new possibilities of how the meaning of the vision is imprinted in space.