MENDIL

Video | Loop | HD | screen

ZK/U | Openhouse | Berlin | 2018

MENDIL is a video work presented as a loop on a television screen. A child’s hand appears on the screen, literally holding a tissue under the nose of the viewer. The TV, anthropomorphized and tilted upward, seems to return the viewer’s gaze. Through this imbalance of position and perspective, notions of hierarchy—superior and subordinate—become palpable.

The gesture (offering, giving, inviting), taken from everyday life, is translated into an artistic context to reflect a reproduction of reality. The unseen—the invisible or unseeable—is brought to the foreground.

How can the invisible become visible? Does our perception shift in the face of such a confrontation? And how do we engage with it?