Thinking about the presentation of the piece, I put together a layout made of individual screens, to be positioned in response to the space of the event, other works and each other, rather than proposing one main screen/projection, where the images would appear together in different times. Each screen is positioned within corners and diagonal space and projecting a clickable image, connected to a mouse on a plinth. On the ‘event of a click’ the image is activated and begins its rotating journey.

‘I am what I see’ is an old saying dating back to the middle ages and refering to the effects of the visual world on the Lacanian ‘I’. The power of the image is by no means reduced in the age of reason, science and information, instead the digital further accennuates the problematic basis of pictorial culture, leading some thinkers to speak of the anxiety and loss of the image and call for the need to update Walter Benjamin and his essay on the age of mechanical reproduction. My attempt to brake down and analyse the pictorial effect, leads me to wonder wherther I am not myself hypnotized and subjected by power of the image.

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