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The interactive installation centers around the notion of voyeurism as a circuitous loop of “framing” and “being framed”, of “looking” and “being looked at”, instead of a one-way looking from the looker’s viewpoint. .  It invites audience to come closer and interact with its body texture, color and objects studded on its side panel. In peering through the pair of binoculars mounted through teh TV screen, the eye (“I”) of the looker is put in a vulnerable position of being objectified.

A pair of binoculars installed through the TV screen invites viewers to come close to the set and peer into them. Visible through one eyepiece is a miniature set of table and chair rendered "filmic" through the use of tinted glass. The second eyepiece is blocked by a surveillance camera that captures the image of viewer’s other eye. These images are transferred to another station comprised of a large scale fried egg served on a table that resembles the set inside the TV box. The yolk of the egg is tinted glass below which, inside the body of a table, the TV monitor/receiver is installed, face up.

More thoughts: The mobility between the two static stations takes place through the involvement of the visitors' eyes. This I find in close resemblace to the way plants attract insects and birds and use their mobility to carry out pollination.

Installed for the Peep Show 2009, Dnipro Ukranian Center, Buffalo, NY.