REAR WINDOW - VISUAL RESEARCH 4

from ‘Stranger’ by Shizuka Yokomizo

And, of course, ‘Stranger’ by Shizuka Yokomizo! She uses photography and video to examine the relationship between the self and the other. Her series Stranger (1998–2000) centers on a momentary confrontation between observer and observed. The series reveals a shadowy, indistinct boundary between public and private. Qualities that usually seem at odds become thoroughly entangled: distance and intimacy, anonymity and exposure, collaboration and control, surveillance and exhibitionism..