In Small Spectacle about Encountering the viewer and the viewer’s space become active elements of the work.
A semi-transparent mirror hangs between a chair and a video projection. The video shows the same chair in the same space. Sitting in the chair, the viewer observes that the reflections of the chair and the space match exactly the same elements in the video. The effect is simultaneously two- and three-dimensional, confusing the perception of space.

A man appears in the video and sits down in the ‘opposite’ chair, his image merging with the viewer’s reflection in the mirror. The features of this new hybrid creature are bewildering – the viewer recognises in them both him/herself and someone else, a stranger.

The man in the video begins to speak. The 9-minute monologue is a description of an absent person, an encounter with whom – or the impossibility of such an encounter – the narrator reflects upon. The internal and the external become entwined in the story. The identities of the narrator and the person in the story, but also that of the viewer, become fluid: who is this other person? Who am I really?

Only one viewer at a time can view the work sitting in the chair. The text in the piece is composed of quotes from Maurice Blanchot’s Le Dernier Homme (The Last Man).