Human body, cardboard, fabric, and time.

Sightless Echo presents a headless body that sees. The artist dons a cardboard box over their head, punctured with small eye holes that allow them to look out, displacing the face and redirecting the gaze. In a space where the artist’s visage appears elsewhere in varying states of distortion and erasure, its absence here becomes a deliberate choice. The body remains, yet the site of recognition is withheld.

Clad in a form-fitting garment that reveals sheer white fabric against the abdomen, adorned with a belly ring, the figure evokes a charged visual language reminiscent of the staged intimacy of the harem, where the body is aestheticized, confined, and rendered available for consumption. However, this reference is neither passive nor fixed; it is inhabited and unsettled by a queer body that reclaims and reorients the terms of its visibility.
Moving silently through the space, the figure engages others without words, relying on gesture, proximity, and posture. The encounter oscillates between invitation and unease: the body is desirable yet resistant—present but not fully accessible. The viewer is drawn in, yet denied the face and completion.

Eyes exist only within the box—concentrated, obscured, and directional. While surrounding works disperse or erase them, here they remain hidden yet active, looking back. Sightless Echo becomes a negotiation of power: who is seen, who is allowed to see, and how desire is shaped through restriction, projection, and the lingering weight of the orientalist gaze.