OPIA
n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable—their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque—as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there’s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you’re looking in or looking out.
-the dictionary of obscure sorrows
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Suffix, denoting visual disorders
OPIA IS AN ONGOING PROJECT EXPLORING FEMININE ARCHETYPES THROUGH A MODERN PERSPECTIVE. EACH SELF-PORTRAIT REPRESENTS A DIFFERENT FACET BY WHICH WOMEN ARE INSPECTED, JUDGED, AND ASSIGNED VALUE. THEY ARE PRESENTED AMBIGUOUSLY AND WITH CONTRADICTIONS, INVITING THE VIEWER TO SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE, AS PEOPLE TEND TO DO.
AT EACH SHOWING, VIEWERS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE BY LENDING THEIR EYES, DIRECTLY EXPERIENCING THE FEELING OF OPIA ALONG WITH THE ARTIST AND SHARING THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON THE SUBJECT MATTER.
EYES THEN ENTER THE COLLECTION — THOUGH ONE MAY BE BARTERED FOR.
