In There (Drin)

2020
Overhead projector, fan, glass, fishing line, wire, wooden board
Dimensions variable (2 m in photo)
In Saar College of Fine Arts

A circle approximately two meters in diameter is projected onto a white wall. Within it, small circles move in a steady, repetitive rhythm. The image recalls microorganisms seen under a microscope or cells moving inside an egg. Yet the movement does not come from a living organism. It is produced by glass beads suspended like a mobile from the lens of an overhead projector and set in motion by the air from a fan. Their movement creates the visible play of light and shadow.

The mechanism behind this movement remains hidden behind black walls. At first, viewers see only the repetitive movement of light and shadow, without knowing what produces it. The hidden source of what is visible recalls Plato’s allegory of the cave. Just as the people in the cave take the shadows cast on the wall for reality, here too the viewer experiences the image before them as reality, without seeing the mechanism that produces it.