Peeking II
Installation
2025
Wood, gesso, fabric, UV resin, paper, camera
This work investigates how the desire for proximity—rooted in voyeuristic impulse—functions as a constitutive force in modern subjectivity, generating acts of projection that collapse back onto the self.
A large, dresser-like structure invites viewers to physically engage their bodies—crouching, tiptoeing, leaning in—to peer into small compartments containing fragmented sensory cues: bones, flesh, hair, scents, and objects that gesture toward a woman who never existed. Deliberately misaligned smells, textures, and visuals create discomfort and misrecognition, destabilizing coherent meaning.
At the base of the structure, a hidden surveillance screen reveals the viewer’s own body in the act of looking, reversing the power dynamics of observation and exposing the politics embedded in the gaze. Rather than constructing a fictional subject, the work interrogates how voyeuristic desire and the mechanisms of looking entangle perception, projection, and the formation of the self under external gazes.
