This photo is from an exhibition by Hong Kong artist PAK Sheung Chuen, which was, together with the Icelandic Pavillion and a film by Ulla van Brandenberg, one of my highlights of the Biennale. This particular work was called 'A Travel Without Visual Experience', for which the artist had travelled to Malaysia with his eyes covered, as if he were blind, for the entire journey. He took photos of all the places that he went to in order for his "future" eyes to view the landscape and sights at a later time. The photographs that he took form the only reference for the artist of his time in Malaysia. For the Biennale, these images are hung in a blacked out room, making it impossible to see the images unless you take your camera with you and blindly photograph Chuen's photographs for your own "future" eyes to view when you return to the daylight outside.
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