Blurry Gazes is an interdisciplinary research work by Anna Boldt and Mathias Weinfurter, which began in Colombia in 2019 and continued in context of their recent residency at NIROX Foundation (2022–2023) in the Republic of South Africa. The central exploration of their artistic research addresses questions of private and public space, functions and mechanisms of security architectures, and examines their relationship to social structures that produce poverty and exploitation under the sign of capitalism.

Like through a magnifier, Blurry Gazes thus functions as a mediator that not only focuses on individual lived realities, but aims at global comparability. At Synnika the duo presents the results of the research, realized with the help of photography, film, and interviews, in form of a video installation, and contextually complements them with sculptural work.

Text by Naomi Rado