Gasthuis Amsterdam. January 2007

Every time I perform the solo “This is a picture of a person I don’t know” I look at the eyes of somebody of the audience for a little bit less than a minute, with a camera on hand. And I record it. And I look how this person looks when he looks at me… or at the camera. But now this person is looking at you.

Watching you is a compilation of some of those moments between uncomfortable and morbid, from people at the audience who become suddenly anonymous protagonists. A reflection on the gaze, live or recorded, on the public subject who becomes a film object and on the fragile space between the spontaneity of the scene and the nostalgia of the image.