The Vertical Gaze | 2025 - Ongoing

Supported by CBK I&V Grant

“The Vertical Gaze” is a research-based ongoing project that will unfold a series of captioned paintings. It aims to capture how the gaze is constantly lifted upwards beneath vertical power and militarized airspaces, while also asking, what tools do we have to keep our opacity under vertical surveillance? The project borrows closed captions from cinema to describe sounds from above. These fragments become visual anchors that make top-down violence not only visible but also mutely audible.  Central to this project is the politicization of the gaze, posture, and the somatic.