Everything Is Connected

We are separated by invisible walls, built from perception, memory, belief. Yet every wall contains an opening. The eye is one of them.

Year
June 2023
Level
AI2
Discipline
Installation & scenography
Built
Full-scale prototype
Concept sketches

Everything Is Connected

We are separated by invisible walls, built from perception, memory, belief. Yet every wall contains an opening.

The eye is one of them.

A galaxy reduced to an iris.
A vein becoming a root.
A root becoming a network.
A body becoming a landscape.

Nature repeats itself at different scales, as if the same language were written into everything that exists. What appears separate may simply be connected beyond what we are capable of seeing.

We have never been more connected, yet we have never been so skilled at remaining apart. We see without looking, hear without listening, judge before understanding. Through screens, people become images, opinions, fragments, while behind every face exists an entire universe of memories, emotions, stories and contradictions that remain invisible to us.

Our perception becomes both a window and a wall.

Everything’s Connected questions this distance. It transforms these invisible boundaries into physical portals, openings between two realities that would otherwise remain separate.

The installation requires two strangers to exist together: two bodies, two perceptions, two unknown worlds temporarily occupying the same space.

There is no instruction to agree.
Only an invitation to look beyond.
Because perhaps connection does not begin when we understand the other.

Perhaps it begins when we accept that we never fully can.
Two worlds meet.
And for a moment, the wall becomes a window.

See you on the other side.

Plan and elevations

These projects are more than what I make.
They are traces of how I see.

Thank you for taking the time to look,
and perhaps, to see a little of me within them.

Charcoal self-portrait of Celine Mahfouz: long dark hair, her chin resting on her hand, looking directly at the viewer