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. Throughout the performance, I slowly paint over it from the
inside with white paint. People standing outside initially see me and what is happening behind the glass, but as the window becomes opaque, the connection is gradually severed.
It was important for me to use the architectural features of the space as the condition of representation — to avoid adding external elements and instead work with what is already embedded in the building. Visibility here is not a metaphor but a literal physical condition of perception. The event takes place not so much inside the gallery as in the in-between: between the space and the street, between the body in action and the viewer — as long as that is possible.
This performance is not built around a statement, but around a refusal: of direct messages, of commentary, of a stable viewing position. The latter is especially important — the viewer is not just excluded but gradually shut out of the process, left standing in front of a white wall. The action can be seen purely as a political gesture — one that does not communicate my position, but exposes the conditions in which such a position is formed.