HOW TO HIDE
IN PLAIN SIGHT



‘How to Hide in Plain Sight’ attempts to playfully explore and understand my inner, intuitive need, as a woman, to be invisible in public places. Presented as a two-channel screening, the film unfolds a sequence of text and images in which individuals are looking to the camera lens.

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I thought that if during the mutual glance, the observer surrenders themselves to the observed, then durring a photoshoot, things can get more intense: from the moment you start taking your position into the frame, until the awaited click, the other has the time to notice your movements, the way you pose, your awkwardness, your ‘god, how stupid I must look right now’.

Taking this footage put me in a position of social interaction with strangers -something i hate- when simultaneously, having the footage of me being taken, exposed me to all the curious, indescrete nosey eyes I always tried to avoid. I chose to perform the process and to reverse my comfortnessl to reproduce the act of hiding, by doing the act of surrendering.


[duration 6min. ]



photo credits: Anđela Brnas











Guiding tutors: Michou-Nanon de Bruijn [ Studio Makkink & Bey ] , Guy Livingston
Theory tutor: Anne Hoogewoning
Master Interior Architecture INSIDE, October 2022