SERIES 1: “A way to see and be seen”
Created by the rabbit hole’s founder and artist Samina Virani “a way to see and be seen” are a series of playful and light-hearted research experiments about wandering within, trying to remember, the encounter and recognition of “the other.”
Photos and videos by Elisa Granovska
In these sessions of poetic mischief, 12 participants are hand-picked each time, invited to “the looking glass” and asked to bring an object/offering that is something they use to “see into the other.”
Performance by Rosella.
“The Labyrinth of Mirrors”
The experimental research relates to the installation and poetic journey “The Labyrinth of Mirrors” commissioned by the Sharjah Art Museum, 2024, where Samina created a landscape of wandering with 6 x two-way plexi glass mirrored panels 1m x 2.4m, sandblasted with symbols, hanging from the sky and illuminated from above. Viewers explored their own reflections through a series of optical illusions, first seeing their own reflection and then seeing through and finding the other. The experiments in the looking glass are a way to explore how we see these reflections through the eye of the other.
