OCULI GREX
Interactive installation
Polymer clay, wire, scanned drawing material (iris), lenticular foil, transparent, threads / nylon line (suspension)
About the Work
The installation examines the relationship between seeing, being seen, and collective perception. A swarm of eye-like objects floats freely in space and responds to the presence of visitors by following their movement. The clear distinction between subject and object of the gaze is destabilized: who is observing whom?
Individual eyes merge into a collective body, evoking associations with biological swarms, microscopic aquatic organisms, or animal life forms. Oscillating between organic appearance and artificial construction, the swarm forms a hybrid entity that resists fixed classification. It does not operate through individual agency, but as an Ensemble a visual collective with its own internal logic and presence.
The work addresses surveillance, social control, and the power of the gaze in a society where seeing is increasingly technologically mediated, fragmented, and depersonalized. At the same time, it references archaic and biological modes of perception: vision as a survival strategy, as an orientation system, as a form of collective intelligence. The installation creates a tension between fascination and discomfort, intimacy and threat, closeness and distance.
Through its suspended spatial arrangement, visitors move within an observing system rather than standing outside it. The work invites reflection on visibility, vulnerability, and the political dimension of looking.
Exhibtitions
2024 MUTABOR, Hannover, GER
2025 HONIGSCHLEUDER, Lichtbunker, Hannover, GER
2025 SALON SALDER, Salzgitter, GER
