Oculus Drift

sculpture to activate, metal, mirror, 30x30x8cm, 2024

Imitating the shape of virtual reality headsets, Oculus Drift is hung at eye level. Viewers are invited to slide their faces into it.

The two mirrors embedded in the metal structure do not lead to another place but bring each viewer back to themselves: their eyes are reflected and multiplied infinitely, as if caught in their own observation.

A device that allows us to “see the seeing,” the installation materializes the gaze itself. Oculus Drift extends the artist’s interest in vision machines and the nebulous notion of “point of view.” Here, looking always, inevitably, comes back to confronting one’s own position.