DSL Collection

In a sunny winter square, passers-by stop on the same spot, one after the other, and look at the camera. In increasing numbers, these strollers with a curious gaze see something that we viewers do not see, finding ourselves, paradoxically, in its place. Could it be that these passers-by are looking at us and that the usual relationship between artwork and viewer is reversed? Liang Wei is also a painter and creates in this work a random group portrait. She presents a moment of suspended time, accentuated by the blue atmosphere of the light and the ethereal musical soundtrack. The artist also uses a strategy often employed by the Surrealists which involves destabilizing theviewer by posing the question "Who is looking? Is the viewer looking at the artwork or is the artwork looking at the viewer?"
Blue can be seen as a comment on the profound distance which characterises our relation to the "Other": like a border materialised by the eye of the camera, that separates'the people in the video and the viewer, our respective cultures here appear to be even more distant than in reality. It is as if we were face to face without really seeing each other.