We Care About Your Eyes, video, 3 m 40 s, 2002
Exhibited: Mons Veneris: Female Geographies, group show curated by Anthony Auerbach and Rosa Reitsamer, ACF, London 2002; Autopoesis, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, 2006
A variant of this work entitled The Thing has also been exhibited: Nette homos — oder wer bestimmt was wir sehen? Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, 2003; Anna Daučíková, Futura, Prague, 2016
The subject appears to be working alone. The fly hides no phallus, but instead reveals a mirror. The mirror reflects the interior and returns the viewer’s gaze. The masturbating hand agitates the scene, bringing it to a climax, anticipated by a ludicrous musical crescendo. This short video is a simulated orgasm, enacted as a lure ...