Interposed Plane

For the development of this project, I built a semi - transparent device that behaves like a two-way mirror. Direct light towards the mirror opens the landscape in proximity of the model and allows a confrontation between the two images: The camera captures the landscape that isn't in its perimeter and, on its other side, the mirror creates a fleeting portrait isolated from the camera.

Because of its semi - transparency, the mirror device also behaves as a gateway, as it cancels the access from the camera to conventional portrait a creates a new record of gaze. The camera extends the possibilities of the image’s visual uptake, as the subject looking in the mirror looks lost for the camera, revealing the echo of the image we fail to see.

“Looking through an interposed plane” was made when I was away in another country for the first time and dealing with social phobia and derealization. It reflects about the urge to grasp on reality when you feel it’s slipping away, sublimating fear through a camera device and stretching its own limitations.