sunseen is a modular projection installation which uses iPhone footage of the sun and the histogram in which the light values of the video are graphically visualised. The project questions what it means to perceive reality through the prism of image-capturing technology, and how our perception of the world is affected by its technical reformulations. The project was developed in three parts: 'encrypt/eclipse',  'a screen aglow',  and  'spectral contradictions'.

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By projecting onto a household blind which acts as both a window and a screen, the extreme overexposure of the sun’s light is modulated and accentuated, seeking to highlight our perceptual bias by altering the way we have become accustomed to 'seeing’. The function of the window blind is to cover and diffuse;  it is made analogous with the phone screen whose function is opposite––to reveal and to capture. Both screens are united in the notion that in order to see the world better we need to obscure it.

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Augmentation of sight in favour of vision.

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In the Bulgarian language the word ‘небитие’ [nebityé] does not translate to English, thereby assuming the shapes of different synonymous words depending on the context it’s used in. It contains within it concepts of ‘non-being’, ‘nothingness’, ‘nonentity’, ‘nullity’, ‘negation’ and ‘void’, and it can also be used to describe the mythical space of non-life and non-existence outside the area of ‘divine creation’. Through this modular video project the familiar image of the glaring sun, overexposed and distorted through the average smartphone camera, becomes synonymous with the word above, a nebitie––hidden, encrypted, just beyond the edge of our perception.