Holding eye contact with another person for four minutes apparently increases intimacy… even makes us fall in love.
In this project pairs of subjects were filmed as they made uninterrupted eye contact with each other for four minutes, sitting next to each other in front of a two-way mirror. The resulting video diptychs are unnerving, blurring the boundaries between the viewer and the viewed and asking us to question the social barriers that we place between strangers and ourselves.
