Julia Scher Avi Loeb, 2023
Convex mirror, surveillance camera, amplifier plugin, sensor light, telescope
ø 100 x 40 cm
Avi Loeb is a mirror tondo with a telescope, small convexe mirror placed on top of a sensor light, camera, surveillance camera, and amplifier plugin attached. It draws on the notion of watchfulness and spectators’ willingness, captured by the promise of a glimpse in the reflecting surface, to be watched. The work is named for Dr. Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist at Harvard who is known not only for his work in astrophysics but also for his claims that an alien spacecraft may be in the Solar System.