Inkijk # 3

Rob Johannesma created a customized work for the Inkijk that was projected onto both windows of the house. The movements of the video images were recorded at different speeds. In this way Johannesma could anticipate the various speeds in which the passers-by (i.e. drivers, cyclists and pedestrians) observed the work. The experience of observing this work consequently became an almost physical event.

Rob Johannesma uses subtle image manipulations in order to make the observer aware of his “observing???. In this video he let a camera scan the surface of a rock of solid sulphur in Wyoming, U.S.A. The lens is carefully focused on the surface of the rock and on the water that covers it. It is as if the images were casually filmed on the spot. Nevertheless they were actually created in the studio by having the camera make tiny movements across a slide that was made on location. By introducing this “dualism??? in his work, Johannesma toys with the duplicitous character of reproduced images.