All the ways I’ve seen you, 2025
Photographic screenprint on Fabriano, Edition 1 of 3
92,5 cm x 134 cm
Artist’s Statement
All the ways I’ve seen you examines the relationship between surveillance, self-representation, and the fragmentation of identity. The work consists of fifty-eight photographic stills arranged within a rigid grid structure. Each image depicts the same figure engaged in ordinary domestic actions, viewed from outside a bedroom window through partially obscured sightlines.
The photographs were deliberately captured from concealed vantage points, positioning the viewer within the role of observer. While the work references traditions of surveillance and voyeurism, its focus is less on narrative than on the repeated transformation of the body into image. Across the grid, the figure appears in numerous states and gestures, yet never fully resolves into a singular subject. Instead, repetition produces distance, rendering the body simultaneously familiar and inaccessible. The strict grid structure also generates subtle perceptual effects, where viewers may begin to perceive dark points emerging between adjacent image corners. Although these marks are not physically present, they draw attention to the act of looking itself, emphasising the instability of perception and the way meaning is actively constructed by the viewer.
The work draws upon phenomenological ideas surrounding the experience of being seen and the fragmentation of selfhood. Through the camera’s gaze, the body becomes both lived experience and visual object. The repeated framing of mundane actions transforms everyday moments into a catalogue of observation, where identity is constructed through accumulation rather than revelation.
A single absent image disrupts the otherwise systematic arrangement, introducing a subtle rupture within the archive. This omission points toward the impossibility of complete visibility and suggests that something always remains outside representation.
