What do we expect to gain when we turn to look at our reflection? As independent self-archiving units, we tend to shape false self-perceptions, devoid of neutral means of observation. These perceptions form identities and memories, which become stories we tell ourselves. Our perceived reality is heavily shaped by our unconscious emotions and our self-perception is by definition inaccurate. Self Contained Archives elegantly demonstrates this principle by transitioning objective reflection into an uncomfortably realistic subjective experience. The work stands at the threshold between subject and object, inviting viewers to gain awareness of their constructed self-image and strive to transform it.
The work invites visitors to enter a shipping conteiner, and by using performance, installation, sound and optical illusions, aspire to break into the viewer’s self-archive with an extreme event - one in which the invisible observer becomes visible, as the work looks back at the spectator
