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The eye (not the crevice in the skull), 2021, digital video, 1:29 min












A camera lens, confronts its operators gaze in a 90 second stand off, framed by a vibrant red vignette. The clicking sounds of the active autofocus motor, make audible a system that has a sens(or), the apparatus records itself.
This moving image is opening up the eye as a threshold of perception. Not merely a mirror, not a crevice in the skull, but residing in moments of false contradictions; a machine thinks, a human affected by their own image.
"The eye is not merely a mirror, but a correcting mirror. The eye should make it possible for us to correct cultural errors. I do not say the eyes, I say the eye, and there is no mystery about what that eye refers to; not to the crevice in the skull but to that very uniform light that wells out of the reds of Van Gogh" 

Frantz Fanon / Black Skin, White Masks
The eye (not the crevice in the skull), 2021
documentation of screening at ZAZ10 Times Square, New York 2021
HALLUCINATIONS IN THE SANE and Other Stories, installation view, Brooklyn 2023

©2020 by Elisheva Gavra

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