I DIDN’T ASK TO BE SEEN (5:37 min), 2025
The performance takes place inside the (A)Void gallery, where the only link between the space and the viewer is a large window. During the action, I slowly cover the glass from the inside with white paint. At first, passersby can see the body and the activity behind the glass, but as the surface turns opaque, this visual connection is gradually severed.
The work engages directly with the architectural conditions of the site, using the window as the primary structure of representation rather than introducing external elements. Visibility here is not metaphorical but a literal physical condition of perception. The event unfolds in the threshold between gallery and street, between the acting body and the viewer, as long as this relation remains possible.
Rather than articulating a clear statement, the performance operates through refusal: refusal of direct messaging, commentary, and a stable viewing position. The viewer is not abruptly excluded but slowly shut out of the process, eventually left facing a blank white surface. The action can be read as a political gesture that does not declare a position but exposes the conditions under which positions themselves become visible.