CAPSULA: CISTERNS, 2017, Film exposures arranged as a horizontal monolith. Photography and subjectivity are seemingly inseparable, and the question of using the image as a document or proof of interior experiences contains slippages drawing lines between narratives and proof. In this particular monolithic strip, the eye confronts dark spaces and strips, the absences as frames around references. The darkened environment contains moss, a staircase, Japanese style bridge, stone arches, and affective tonal lighting. The psychological place viewed within the subterranean horizon involves an experience of a maze, not of wonder, but of gamification. The technological tones, repetition of scenes, points to the place being made by an architect, not of the viewers making. A trap could be revealed with more light. Seeing through the dark, the imprisoned viewer becomes acutely aware, either hypersensitive to details or dulled by the trap of gaze. The monolith reveals the way spectators in the world become subjected to psychological games structural builders create. The routes of egress also predetermined. The images were made in the @cisternerne in Copenhagen, Denmark, from the Sambuchi installation.
