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Concept:
Eyes is the symbol of sentience. Scientifically, animals share the neurological substrates associated with conscious experience.
Within industrial systems of production, this capacity for sentience becomes structurally absent. The body remains visible, while the individual capable of perception disappears behind the product.
The work holds two circles. The shape is the link between the visual and the concept: the circle is the eye, and the eye is the visible sign of sentience, organized by the system to be seen as form and not as the animal's experience.
The work opens up the social structure in which sentience is absent from materially present bodies.
Research based on: Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (2012); Nilsson 2013.
