Kafchin's video starts with eyes, human to feline to robot to cyborg, and lets them dissolve into cellular and cosmic imagery, a nod to how much of what we know about the very small and very large depends on machines that see for us. Because it plays on the museum's facade, it works as a quick detour on a SoHo walk. If you are headed to LOVER LOVE inside, look up first.
What to expect
The three synchronized channels are installed on the museum's Wooster Street Facade, so you can watch from the sidewalk. Imagery shifts from anatomical eyes through technological vision to microscopic and cosmological forms.
Good to know
- The work is on the museum's Facade, visible as you approach 26 Wooster Street.
- Pair it with Shu Lea Cheang's LOVER LOVE inside the museum.
- Canal Street stations on the A, C, E, N, Q, R, W, 1 and 6 lines are within a short walk.
- It is a short loop, good for a few minutes between SoHo stops.
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Common questions
Where is the video shown?
On the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art's facade at 26 Wooster Street in SoHo.
What is the 'third eye' idea here?
The piece invokes pineal-gland evolution, spiritual traditions and science-fiction tropes to push perception beyond ordinary human sight.
