Biennale Images Vevey
2014
Watching you watch me
Watching you watch me
In the Watching you watch me series, Moa Karlberg experimented with the legal limits of photography in the public space by taking portraits of passers-by without them knowing. Propped behind a one-way mirror of a shop window in Stockholm, she captured the expression of people stealthily looking in the mirror as they walked by, at that very moment when they lowered their guard to admire their reflection, unaware that they were being observed. The Biennale Images Vevey displayed these stolen portraits in a backlit glazed gallery, only visible from the street, in direct reference to the Swedish artist’s approach.
