Iza Noticing Something

Anna Theunissen
2022

How do you visualise present day alienation of social encounters and the longing to connect? Everyone has their story they wanna share and tell. This is a street scene video collage made with my neighbor's, colleagues and housemates, all of them notice something outside of the frame but not each other. This scene is made to make a space with people come together. Since everyone in the video stares at something outside of the frame, they respond on their surrounding and the people watching the video.

About the artist:
Anna Theunissen researches the medium photography by questioning the position of the viewer. The viewer in this case is just as much the photographer as it’s the people in the images, as is the viewer watching the work. Through short stories where the perspective on a situation keeps changing, the ambivalence of actions is explored. Seeking for nuances that fail to characterise the dividing between private and public, discomfort, spontaneous actions, spatial rigidness and the unpractical merge in an absurd landscape.