Andy Holden

Committed to his unswerving interest in scouting out the anthropomorphic nature in lifeless objects, Andy Holden continues to explore the covert but intricate human-nature connection in Eyes in Space, 2014, a nebula comprising plastic googly eyes stuck onto a digital print of the cosmos, and a visualisation of his imaginary universe. Disguised as a galaxy of stars in the pink interstellar clouds of dust, the originally extraneous eyes have become an integral part of the space that lures the viewers in, and as their gaze meets the protruding wobbly eyes, a sense of sheer eeriness starts to creep in, bringing about an uncanny feeling of being viewed, no longer acting as the viewers. Such a provocative piece offers a destabilizing experience that challenges the viewers’ presumption and invites them to examine themselves from the viewpoint of outer space. Perhaps Holden’s vision of the universe is not figmental after all, with the increased number of spacecraft, and hence surveillance.