Projected room by Noa Leshem-Gradus

Projected room
by Noa Leshem-Gradus
The projected room is an installation of a small fictional room built out of 4 live feed projections, inside of a big room. Every wall of the fictional room is a projection of the wall in the large room which is cropped up to the ability of the “camera’s eye” which is much narrower than the human eye. Inside the small room, the viewer gets the feeling of a supposedly cozy room, but it is actually fictional because none of the objects is real - they are merely the “projected language” representing the reality. Inside the small room, the viewer experiences the media reality, presented as his reality. When outside, the viewer realizes the gap between the reality he is “shown” while he is in the room, which is only a very narrow part of the reality - totally different reality than what the big room actually contains, which is very chaotic and intimidating. Although the live feed suggests this is real, it is actually only part of what is supposedly real. Being in the big room, the viewers may see themselves on the screens, when they are in front of the cameras, and the room is actually reflected from the outside in. If the viewers outside walk in front of the projectors, the inside room will show their shadow, referencing plato’s cave.