blind me! LIGHT

ab 19. Oktober 2025, 12.00 Uhr Monira Foundation, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ

Das Projekt im öffentlichen Raum von Katharina Gruzei und Ann Messner wird seit 19. Oktober 2025 als Video-Installation am Haupteingang des Mana Contemporary in New Jersey gezeigt und bis 17. Februar 2026 rund um die Uhr zu sehen sein. 

Zum Projekt:
In 2023, Katharina Gruzei, in Vienna, and Ann Messner, in New York, collaborated on a project in public space. Over 4000 miles apart, they mapped the locations of publicly accessible online surveillance cameras within their two respective cities. Choreographing each other’s movements through the online surveillance view, they tracked one another through the city, each carrying a full-length mirror. They passed camera to camera, using the mirror as a device to refract the sun into the lens of each unsuspecting surveillance cam – throwing back the stare and thus blinding the recording of their passing in view of each camera. Back and forth, they recorded each other’s actions as one camera after another was struck by blinding light. At night, they switched the mirror for a torch. The resulting video blind me! LIGHT, presents the recorded evidence the two artists left behind – traces of their movements through their respective cities. The glitched recordings become spectral artefacts, resisting the public surveillance with rudimentary tools and momentarily blinding the surveillance gaze.

monirafoundation.org/exhibitions-blind-me-light