The overlapping images of Double Vision dominate the first part of Peter Campus's video artwork. This work was one of the first to explore the medium of video as a way of expanding and multiplying visions of the world, playing on double-ups and feedback, hence determining the position of the spectator.
In this way, Double Vision also has the freshness and primal energy of any image that emerges from a new language. Using two cameras, Campus creates a minimalist path, one that sits astride the body, maintaining an ever-present echo and an intimate environment. The body is both active in looking and passive in being looked at. It is both a container and contained, moving within its apartment, taken from every angle and from every direction.
The primitive syntax of the video's gaze involves splitting, superimposition and displacement, with a chaotic eye. Campus experiments with basic special effects during the seven fragments (Frame, Disparity, Convergence, Fovea, Impulse, Fusion, Inside the Radius), resulting in a complex image, a double vision – the two eyes of the human machine.

Stéphanie Moisdon
Translated by Jo Garden