Blinded by the same fog

2023; interactive installation, variable sizes; metal sheet, mdf and printed foil; magnets
Produced with the support of SAHA Foundation during the SAHA Studio program.

“Blinded by the same fog” is a physically interactive work made of two parts: the tile pattern on the wall with a starter text, and copies of these word-tiles on a nearby table. Using metal base and magnets, the audience is invited to play with those words, making their own combinations.
The project is based on a newly developed einstein tile, a single geometric shape that can be tiled into infinity aperiodically. Which renders a single tile’s location incalculable in space, or in other words, it is impossible to predict in which orientation the tessellating tiles may proceed, leading to fresh clusters. Using a text on coincidences overlaid on these tiles, “Blinded by the same fog” plays between the formal unpredictability of the world of geometry and the lived experience of chance and contingency.