(Mar 05) Two-screen video installation (14:26 min loop). Videos play simultaneously on two screens which face each other at a distance of 8".

Some 5,000 photographs document every page of the private diary I have been writing daily since 1996, which presently consists of 53 books. The pages are displayed as a film/animation with 6 photos per second, so the viewer is able to catch only one or two words or the general tone of the writing. The film appears on two screens that face each other.

My private diary is intended not to be read by anyone, so when I write I enjoy a freedom that isn't there when I try to make artwork. In this project I explored the impact of the audience on my artwork: the positioning of the screens asks what it means for pieces to exist in dialogue with one another without the presence of a viewer. The title (which relates to the question of whether reality is the same when divorced from our perception of it) is directed at the viewer, and invites him/her to question whether his/her presence activates or validates the piece in any way.