"Eye" vs. "Eye", Part 4 of the series The Fall of a Hair
Rabih Mroué
Lebanese, born 1967
2012
A 16mm film installation by Rabih Mroué that uses a custom viewing machine and traces of blue ink to stage a confrontation between looking and being looked at, making the mechanics of seeing itself the subject.
A small, square, low-resolution moving image floats in a black field—pixelated rooftops, a balcony and a distant figure rendered like a private moment turned public, its grain and shakiness insisting on the camera’s presence.
Working within traditions of testimony and media critique, the piece shows how fragmentary cinematic images and the devices that present them shape memory and political meaning, questioning how images construct history.
Medium
16mm film (color, sound), 16mm viewing machine on custom table, blue ink
Dimensions
39 3/8 x 27 9/16 x 27 9/16" (100 x 70 x 70 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Fund for the Twenty-First Century
Accession
219.2013.a-c
Palette
Exhibitions
