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Wandering Gaze consists of an XY plotter concealed behind a framed photograph, to which a magnet has been attached. When viewers observe the image through the viewfinder, their eye movements are recorded by an eye-tracking system. The metal filings inside the frame are then set in motion by the magnet, following the recorded gaze path and erasing the image as they move across it. What begins as an apparently innocent act of looking transforms into a destructive gesture that, over time, erases the image itself: the more we look at the photograph, the more it fades before our eyes. Viewers are placed in a dilemma: they not only contribute to the destruction of the artwork but are also confronted with their own curiosity and voyeurism — the very forces that led them to this situation in the first place.
Ana Teresa Vicente is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Fine Arts – Photography (FBAUL), funded by an FCT scholarship. She exhibits and publishes regularly, including at: Project Halaqat, Goethe-Institut Cairo (EG); ARTeFACTo (MO); Taipei Photo Festival (TW); Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH); Format Festival (UK); Athens Photo Festival (GR); Ars Electronica Campus (co-curated with Mónica Mendes, AT); Immersive|Imersivo, SNBA (PT). She was co-coordinator and researcher of the Post-Screen project. In 2020, she began From Transtopia to Supertopia, a project developed at In-Situ AIR (Fundação Oriente grant, HK) and through the Halaqat residency, Bozar, Goethe-Institut, and IMAL (BE), and by Goethe-Institut Cairo, Cairotronica, with the support of the American University in Cairo (EG). She is currently an adjunct guest lecturer in the Sound and Image programme at ESAD.cr.
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