The medical term for the optical deficiency that I suffered as a child is diplopia – double vision, the central trope of this exhibition. This condition entails the simultaneous dual perception of a single object, creating two images that can shift horizontally, vertically or diagonally. This duplicity of representation is visually interesting insofar as the two images – though unaligned – do not have exact contours. In diplopia, when an attempt is made to focus on the outline of an object, this shifts away from the gaze and becomes blurred in the surrounding world.
