I See You

Web Exhibition | www.i-seeyou.space

Click the link above to explore interactive panels and videos in the web exhibition.

I See You centers on the twin meanings of attention as “waiting” and “holding,” drawing on the philosophy of Simone Weil. Attending involves waiting rather than searching for the truth, and bearing witness to both our own and others' sufferings. Through visual metaphors, the artwork explores the complexities and ambivalence of how we experience and practice attention in everyday life. It highlights the tension between presence and absence, illustrating how attention leaves traces even after the subject has departed–figureless.

The piece questions what it means to truly attend to others—how we navigate the boundaries between where we end and others begin in the act of seeing and being seen. In its ambivalence, I See You invites viewers to recognize that attention, as a form of care and a pathway to justice, does not always feel comforting. Each panel reflects individual experiences and ways of seeing that are bounded by time and space. This act of seeing entails paying attention to others’ affective experiences and inner emotional landscapes, sustaining lives by recognizing and respecting the realities of others. Rather than searching for similarities or common ground, this form of attention focuses on acknowledging each lived story that emerges during interactions, as we navigate life together while remaining separate and whole.

By centering everyday relationships, the piece reveals how attention helps us not only to remain human but also to move closer to a more just and equal society

Artist

Rifti Gita

Indonesia

Living true to her name in Javanese—Rifti stands for life and death and Gita as the rhythm and prose of one’s heart—she dedicates her purpose to using visual communication as a way to express feelings. Her practice lies in breaking the grids, rules, and boundaries of graphic design as a means to decolonize design principle and experiment with radical, deconstructed views of design.

Artist

Mirna Nadia

Indonesia

Mirna Nadia is a graduate student in sociology living in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her interests include documenting intimate lives and living arrangements beyond the heterosexual nuclear family, tracing minority histories, and exploring the boundary works that shape our understanding of social reality