Borrowing the Other Eye (Gade)Borrowing the Other Eye (Gade)

人間は二つの眼球を持ちながら、それぞれ異なる像を受け取り、それらを脳内で統合することで一つのイメージを知覚している。友人と自身の二人分の身体を用い、互いに片目を塞ぎ合うことで「自分の見えない視界を他者が担っている」と仮定してみる。それぞれが交代でカメラのレリーズを手にし、ピントが合ったと感じた瞬間にシャッターを切る。 並置された二枚の写真は、あたかも一対の眼球のように機能しながらも、単一の中心を持たない像として立ち現れる。視線の焦点は定まらず、見る主体は揺らぎ続ける。この不安定な構造を通して、「身体の内部にあるはずの知覚」は身体の外側へと押し出され、他者とのあいだに分配されるものとして再構成される。Humans possess two eyes, each receiving a different image, which are then integrated in the brain to form a single perception. In this work, that mechanism is externalized: using the bodies of the artist and a friend, each participant covers one of the other’s eyes, creating a situation in which the portion of one’s own vision that is obscured is, in a sense, “held” by the other. Each holds a camera release and presses the shutter at the moment they feel the image has come into focus. The two photographs, placed side by side, function as if they were a pair of eyes, yet they emerge as an image without a single center. The point of focus remains unsettled, and the subject of vision continues to waver. Through this unstable structure, the work attempts to push perception—normally understood as internal to the body—outside of it, reconfiguring it as something distributed between bodies.