Perhaps we met (2012)

‘Perhaps we met’ is an interactive installation.

When people fill up the place, they trigger the sensors, which light up the one-way mirror containers on the walls. And people can read the handwritten sentences in the containers. The sentences describe every moment people face in daily life. When one of the two separated spaces is empty, all lights turn off on the wall, and no one can read the writings. The audience only sees the containers with the reflections of themselves.

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Maybe you and I met in last year, last month, or yesterday on the street or in the cyber community, but we did not notice each other in these shared public domains. Through socializing, we can notice each other. Social interaction is an invisible human behavior, so it is hard to recognize without the process of defining the term. This piece is installed in an open space, yet sensors set an invisible wall.

 

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