Look without seeing
Video
Year 2022
The world unfolds as a sequence of images. We walk among shadows and lights, between reflections and blurred figures, without pausing to distinguish what truly inhabits our surroundings.
We live in the inertia of movement, in the repetition of the everyday, unaware that we are looking without seeing.
I have always been drawn to the indistinct, to that which does not reveal itself clearly. The blurred awakens the desire to decipher, to complete the absent image, to refine our gaze beyond the surface. But what if, in that search, we forget the immediate? What if, in the fog of perception, we stop seeing those who are with us?
The streets, the windows, the buildings, the people—everything becomes a passing postcard, a scene unfolding before our eyes, forgotten in an instant. It is not that we do not look; it is that we look without seeing, because we do not want to see. Life continues its course, and we, absorbed, do not see, do not perceive the light, do not hear the silence or the noise, do not feel.
In truth, as in art, there is a veil that lifts only for those willing to face it. Clarity compels us to confront reality; blurriness leaves room for interpretation, for ambiguity, for avoidance. The clear is definitive and, at times, deeply painful—above all, because it is true.
In this video, I explore solitude, uncertainty, and the anguish of existence. I seek that sensation in my work—the moment when the image dissolves, when the viewer must decide whether to see or to keep looking without seeing.
