installation at kuz/landesgalerie, eisenstadt 2025

catch me if you cam stages an encounter with a computer component that appears vulnerable in its exposed state. the webcam sensor — open, unprotected, without a lens — reacts hypersensitively to light, movement, and presence. it registers without recognising, records without forming an image. this shifts the function of the camera from a tool of representation to a sensitive surface that renders proximity perceptible without translating it into stable forms. information emerges that remains tangible, yet not clearly legible.

a curtain printed with a pattern of webcam covers becomes the projection surface for this unstable image. like the covers themselves, it marks an attempt to draw a boundary — pragmatic in use, yet symbolic as a sign of protection. in the overlap between everyday practice and image carrier, a relation appears that remains both familiar and distrustful. catch me if you cam makes this ambivalence visible — not through clarity, but through the radical blur of an interface that perceives everything and understands nothing.