“Antipodes III” continues a series of works that appropriates rearview mirrors, twisting a line from media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s rear-view-mirror-effect. “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future,” Marshall McLuhan once observed. “People never want to live in the present. People live in the rearview mirror because it’s safer…. they’ve been there before, they feel comfortable.” Suggestive of looking through a periscope, the rewired rearview mirror is suspended from the ceiling to show within its small frame a recorded live-stream video of the port of Okinawa for a duration of 24 hours. The video sculpture is part of a series that offers reflection on the contested landscape staged in the Pacific Rim. Originally presented in Art Basel Statements, the work was notably part of a booth presentation that was awarded the Baloise Art Prize in 2024.
