Blue Space

This work is a sculptural installation constructed as a bird’s-eye view of an interior space. Built from wood and presented vertically on the wall like a painting, the installation invites the viewer to look down into the room from an elevated, almost omniscient perspective. At the center of the space is a sculptural figure of a young man, whose state remains ambiguous: he appears to be awakening in the early morning from a dream, or perhaps still suspended within a nightmare. The boundary between waking reality and the dream world is intentionally left uncertain. A small television monitor within the installation displays a live image of the viewer. A miniature camera, concealed in the upper part of the work, captures the viewer in real time. As the audience observes the young figure and attempts to interpret his dreamlike or nightmarish state, their own image simultaneously appears on the monitor, placing them unexpectedly within the work itself. The relationship between observer and observed is therefore reversed and destabilized. While the viewer looks down into the room from an imagined position above, as if viewing the scene from the ceiling, the work also looks back at the viewer. Reality, dream, observation, and participation gradually overlap, transforming the act of viewing into part of the installation itself.