The OBSERVER

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The question, “If I were to observe people and things from a point of view known only to me, how would I perceive them?” opens up the fundamental problem of perception as an irreducibly singular experience. Every gaze constitutes a unique angle onto the world, an inner position that cannot be fully transferred to another. In this sense, perception remains a form of singularity: an opaque core of experience, impossible to translate completely. The work begins from this impossibility. By filming people in the street, then selecting, cutting out, and reorganising the images according to a certain rhythm, the artist does not reproduce reality as such, but constructs a secondary experience, an experience about the experience of observing. The image thus becomes not a document, but a medium of transformation, distortion, and perceptual reconfiguration. The result is a story without narrative, a visual field in which meaning is not told, but suspended and redistributed. The aim of the work is not to narrate, but to convey a state of observation and contemplation. In this context, the gaze may be thought of as a symbolic black hole: it draws in fragments of reality, absorbs them into the interior of a singular consciousness, and re-emits them in another form: dense, discontinuous, and impossible to restore as neutral reality.

Ciprian Antoci (b. 1995, Republic of Moldova) is a visual artist based in Chișinău, whose practice unfolds at the intersection of painting, video, and installation. Educated at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts, where he obtained both his BA and MA in painting, the artist extends his research into the field of contemporary philosophies. His practice investigates the status of the image under conditions of perceptual instability, articulating situations in which the relationship between the visible and the invisible becomes fluid. His works operate as mediating dispositifs, generating tension-filled spaces in which representation is suspended, and the image is constituted as a process rather than an object.