Blind Spots – Cognitive Bias

 

There are points where the world disappears – in the eye and in the mind. Mirrors capture negative flashes of light, traces of something we only see when we shift our perspective. Blind spots remind us that even the clearest vision is always coloured by us.

In Blind Spots – Cognitive Bias, negative light phenomena meet their mirror.

“In the process of working with light phenomena, negative light phenomena also emerged, printed on the front of glass mirrors. My works have always been rooted in psychological phenomena.”
– Lisa Rosenmeier.

The physiological blind spot is a dark point on the retina. The cognitive blind spot is a dark point in the mind – the place where we see the distortions of others more clearly than our own. Both remind us that reality is always filtered through our own light.

The Blind Spots project consists of around 100 negatives of coloured light, printed on mirrors. These prints are created from photographically captured coloured light, then inverted into negatives – an echo of the process in which light enters the eye, but here reversed: its opposite, a dark field through which nothing can be seen.