In collaboration with Argos Centre for Art and Media
In 1632, the Dutch physicist Plempius was investigating the knowledge of the time of eyesight. By using a dead cow’s eye as a camera oscura, he promised readers of his treatise Ophthalmographia, “…and you, in this gloomy room, behind the eye, will see a perfect picture of everything that is going on in the outside world.” In her Brussels kitchen, the historian Katrien Vanagt and her fi lmmaker cousin set up an experiment and unfold the birth of the image before our eyes.
