28 SECONDS 2012 Single channel video installation 28 sec, color, mute
"28 seconds" is also the duration of the video and the scene, which begins with the actor absorbed in his reading. The camera doesn't show where his gaze is directed. It's when the actor lifts his face and looks at the camera that the latter abruptly tilts down to film Diane Arbus's photograph, " "Puerto Rican Woman with a Beauty Mark," in the book. The short and simple video raises complex questions such as gaze, race, and gender. "28 seconds" involves the spectator themselves, who becomes part of the negotiation of gazes that the video generates.