Peter Miller
2021His works are in numerous private collections as well as public collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA; the Innogy Stiftung, Essen, Germany; and FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, France. His films have been screened at festivals including the Berlinale, Viennale and the Toronto, London and Rotterdam International film festivals and are distributed by Light Cone in Paris and Arsenal in Berlin. His work has been shown in international reviews such as the 57th Biennale of Venice and the Biennale of Contemporary Photography as well as online by Kottke.org, Boing Boing and Gizmodo. He is represented by Galerie Crone in Berlin and Vienna.
Eidola
Peter Miller
'Eidola' references an early intromission theory of vision, that all things emit tiny versions of themselves into our eyes. That theory competed at the time with the emission theory, that the eyes themselves emitted light, which emerged from the eyes and sent back to the mind what was seen. In this piece we see through eyes that emit an infrared light to which the raw film is insensitive while touching the camera's retina with an external light which it can 'see'. We move from the un-lensed eye along the film path (optical nerve) into the magazine containing the film in the process of its exposure (the mind). As we do so there is a growing lapse between the performed light and the moment we see it in the video because we are traveling further from the 'eye' (memory).
Eidola
