Blindfolded
BLINDFOLDED is a photographic and interactive installation in which the present and the past intersect. Through portraits, archive images and a digital system, visitors are confronted with an unexpected question: where would you recognise yourself in history?
BLINDFOLDED sets out to explore why we often only recognise historical patterns when it is too late. The installation combines large-scale black-and-white photographs, historical archive footage and an interactive booth. Visitors can enter individually, enter their name, answer a few questions and have their photograph taken. A digital system links traces of their online presence to an archive of around 20,000 historical images and creates a speculative match from them. Surrounding the booth are photographic works in which contemporary portraits and historical images merge through double exposure. The result is neither a prediction nor a judgement, but a personal confrontation between identity, technology and history.
Translated from Dutch
