“In the Space Between You and Me” is a two-screen video installation.
On each screen you see a black and white video of an eye, each eye is from a different face, but shown side by side on the wall, they simulate one coherent face.
A male and a female voice-over take turns speaking the same monologue. A narrative is unfolded, which takes point of departure in a situation of two people looking into each otherʼs eyes. It is told in the second person (“you”) and a whole spectrum of emotions is put on this “you”, going from unwillingness, arrogance and dominance to insecurity, anxiety and nausea. Slowly the narrative leads to an experience of a loss of a coherent self and the break-down of individual subjectivity.
Since the seemingly very personal story is spoken both by a man and a woman taking turns, the meaning and the ownership of this story, is put into question. By speaking in the second person “you” the installation performs the narrative with the audience and the event in the story is placed on the audience, provoking the experience to be lived (again) by those who interact with the work.