InVision
Digital Photography; Seven Windows, 10’H x 12’W each; SFMOMA Garage, San Francisco, CA
InVision transforms the architectural windows of the SFMOMA Garage into portals of self-exploration. Conceived as a collaborative project with ten high school students over ten weeks, the installation challenges participants to imagine a movie of their own lives distilled into a single photographic frame. Beginning with pin-hole cameras and progressing to 35mm, the students engaged in a playful yet deeply introspective process, ultimately digitally manipulating their images to convey layers of emotion, meaning, and identity.
Displayed across seven large windows, the images initially echo the language of advertising and storefront displays. Yet, upon closer inspection, each window reveals a nuanced portrait of the self—a lens into personality, mood, and aspiration. The work leverages the metaphor of the window itself: a threshold between inside and outside, self and public, surface and depth. InVision invites viewers to peer through these frames, reflecting not only on the participants’ identities but also on the human impulse to see, be seen, and understand.