I start to say something, get interrupted, start again. I have a message. A story about the inherent slippage of power that comes from being looked at but not being seen.
In our new project, Third Window, we are trying to open up layers of perception to make palpable the feelings of danger, shame, eroticism and isolation that arise from being objectified.
Photography has historically been a vehicle for the objectification of women, stripping them of their agency. But what if the women in the photographs, however encumbered by their lived experiences, are something godlike and unreachable? Our photographs are morphed from a dream-like projection of the internal female world onto the hard facts of the built landscape––with a window serving as a transparent membrane between the two.
The resultant images question notions of authority, reality, and permanence––notions inherent to the nature of photography itself. In Third Window we navigate the power dynamic between observer and observed and illuminate a self caught somewhere in between.
