CICA Museum, M Gallery
July 3 – 7, 2024
2024.07.03 – 07
DoubleTake
Seeing double. Double take. Take two.
Imaging devices record single glances of the world—Crack!—trees fall, shutters snap, photographs are captured. But the immediately obvious and apparent simplicity of the interactions between the subjects and the observer—and between the subjects themselves—are belied by repeated glances. What we see is constrained by our visual processing systems and conditioned by our expectations. Our eyes see “color,” but ultraviolet and infrared are invisible
to us. The objectif-icity of our vision is undermined by different film emulsions, digital imaging systems, and post-processed color mappings that expose different worlds. And, we expect an image to capture the decisive moment. Wherever we are in a landscape, we find ourselves looking beyond the here and now. The decisive moment disappears in constant growth and decay and collapses beneath networks of symbiotic interactions.
Stop. Look. Look away. Look again. Repeat.
