BLACK MIRROR (2018-22)
What can trigger fear?
Analysing scare techniques since 2017, Boris Eldagsen and Tomasz Lazar realised, that the more undefined a threat or a threatening situation might be, the easier it is to project your own fears onto it. A psychological mechanism that resembles the ‘Black Mirror’, a reflective black surface of obsidian, water, or oil, that was used by ancient Greeks, Hebrew, Persian and Mayan oracles as a projection space.
Today we know, that if we gaze long enough at a pitch-black surface, our confused sensory-deprived brain projects images and colours, reflections of memories and emotions. Or as Nietzsche would term it: ‘When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.’
Eldagsen & Lazar use this technique to create a photographic equivalent of the ‘Black Mirror’. They set off the viewers’ imagination into their very own unconscious minds, unleashing memories and fears.
https://www.eldagsen.com/blackmirror/
