If you are familiar with public transport the feeling of being watched and analyzed isn’t foreign to you, am I right? In slang we called it «hostile design» when the benches in the streets aren’t comfortable or replaced by leaning bars that you can only lean and not sit on. This design nourishes our cities, that are becoming more and more similar and more and more connected, send us a message, cognitively, with cameras that are easy to spot. Yes, those cameras are placed in the middle of the metro so as to catch your eye. In this way, you will behave. The eye, represented on a transparent pane, hollow cameras from an eye, which is visible in most trains to signal that you are being watched and all this data will be saved for the next 72 hours. But what a good citizen forgets is that they can at any moment ask for any image that concerns them. This becomes more and more difficult with diverse technologies that surround us. To start with our use of transports, but also simply the data received by the daily use of Google, Facebook, our phones, operators and more. We accept to give this information even if it represents an economic goldmine.... It’s for this reason that all the cameras are united by many cables who lead to only one, to symbolize that this data is often supplied to only one recipient. In his document, Cullen Hoback (Terms and conditions may apply) shows us we all give a lot of data and this is in a completely legal depending on the country we find ourselves in. However, a very well-known figure who signed the American Declaration of independence once said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty​ nor Safety”. The point of this installation is not to give a pessimistic view of the technology that surrounds us, but rather to realize the importance and the power we give it, even if this technology seems ordinary.

This project was displayed during my exhibition of the 23-25th of may 2018, titled "Fearless after all". Where I explore questions about what it means to live a human life, and how one's context and perception of their reactions to reality are crucial to experiencing a deeply human existence, even through burdens.

5m x 2.5m Plexiglass. 28 plastic half-sphere, masks, colored plastic fiber strand.