Killer Eyes
David Cotterrell & Pia Watson, 2024
Two channel video instalation
David Cotterrell & Pia Watson, 2024
Two channel video instalation
When communication breaks down and triggers are more common than kindness, words begin to fail. The conventions of conversation become traps for repetitive recriminations and looping accusations.
Small involuntary ‘tells’ remain as to the genuine moments of empathy, kindness and connection that are obscured by rhetoric. Subtle physical cues offer guidance to the rage that is suppressed beneath measured argument.
The mouth is the deliverer of ideas, but the eyes are what we seek to watch. At some point we can no longer bear to look. Scared to witness, genuine disdain, hubris or anger, we may no longer have the courage to discover whether they still reveal love.
Killer Eyes is the first piece of an ongoing exploration between artists David Cotterrell and Pia Watson, an artistic research interested in discovering what might reveal where connections falter in spaces where communication is necessary to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes between individuals or groups.
Killer Eyes is presented as a two channel video installation.
Small involuntary ‘tells’ remain as to the genuine moments of empathy, kindness and connection that are obscured by rhetoric. Subtle physical cues offer guidance to the rage that is suppressed beneath measured argument.
The mouth is the deliverer of ideas, but the eyes are what we seek to watch. At some point we can no longer bear to look. Scared to witness, genuine disdain, hubris or anger, we may no longer have the courage to discover whether they still reveal love.
Killer Eyes is the first piece of an ongoing exploration between artists David Cotterrell and Pia Watson, an artistic research interested in discovering what might reveal where connections falter in spaces where communication is necessary to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes between individuals or groups.
Killer Eyes is presented as a two channel video installation.