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Concept:
The work investigates how recognition of sentience becomes separated from materially present bodies.
Built from discarded filament-spool cores, sand and pigments, Eyes reduces the eye to two abstract circles. The work asks how little visual information is required before viewers recognize the presence of another conscious being.
Many non-human animals possess the neurological substrates associated with conscious experience. Within industrial systems of production, however, recognition of this sentient capacity becomes structurally absent. The body remains visible while the individual capable of perception disappears behind the product.
By reducing the eye to its simplest material form, Eyes translates this separation into a material proposition. The work makes observable the social structure through which sentience becomes perceptually absent despite remaining physically present.
Research based on: Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (2012);Nilsson 2013.
