Narcissus

2022
Photogrammetry moving image
Media Studies, RCA, London

This work exploits the technical flaw of photogrammetric 3D scanning’s incapacity to register mirrored surfaces, constructing mirrored parallel realities through reflection to forge a tripartite structure of gazes. It materializes Lacanian mirror stage theory—the fabrication of an idealized self through others' gazes, mistaken as authentic identity, until the mirror image usurps subjectivity, dragging us into infinite cycles of self-alienation. Within narcissism-driven social value systems, we drown in collective hallucination, perpetually reveling like prisoners in the infinite mirror maze.