WHICH EYE KILLED THE CRIMINAL?
OMARLEEN
WHICH EYE KILLED THE CRIMINAL?
We deeply regret that another video (“A State Repressed Lockdown of Hong Kong Apartments”) was displayed at the viewing space of Omarleen’s “WHICH EYE KILLED THE CRIMINAL?”, during GOGBOT 2022 from 8-11 September.
Therefore, from next week in the group show of MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE, the work “WHICH EYE KILLED THE CRIMINAL?” will be presented as a centerpiece on a large-scale video projection, running from September 22 – October 23
The exact days and opening times are to be announced momentarily.
An artistic research on the different roles the camera takes in social situations of violence, and the impact of these roles on the depicted. Questions on the reliability of the image, the fictionalization of an event by shooting it with cameras, the relation between visibility and value and the economy of false truth are raised in the work. Challenging the singular gaze on images of violence/victims by giving theoretical and analytical tools while narrating stories of events that show how fiction can leak into reality and clash with its rules in the same way a documentary clashes with itself as a truth-telling medium.
This research is presented through lecture-performance, a video and an installation made from drawings, images, and objects.
