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Installation | Text | Light
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“WE ARE NOT SAYING WE DON’T TRUST YOU; WE ARE ONY SAYING WE TRUST YOU MORE WHEN WE CAN SEE YOU.”
Original Text
Cut out MDF and LEDs on plywood
4 x 2 ft
2021
The underlying concerns in this piece were realized as a response to surveillance. It also tries to address the nuanced mode of communication found in relationships with an imbalanced power dynamic within social institutions.
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A preliminary version of the text-piece was site-specific. The text, written in LEDs, was installed at my college outside the Head of Department’s office, under a CCTV camera. It allowed me to explore the celebratory nature of certain phrases - which otherwise hold serious connotations - especially by shifting it from a verbal to visual domain.
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