PERCEPTION  INDIVIDUAL is an interactive installation in a space that mimics the shape of a domestic architectural floor plan. Visitors encounter a series of objects that induce an experience of illusion (mirage imaginary).

The space is entirely dark, accessible only by passing through blackout curtains. On the floor, outlined in white as if drawn from an architectural blueprint, lie various unrelated objects such as flower pots, weights, and tongue-shaped ceramics placed in irregular positions.

When approached, sensors react to the viewer’s movement and trigger different sound clips. These sounds—composed of disconnected effects, words, and short phrases—are accompanied by red, blue, and green primary lights that flicker unpredictably in response. These spatial elements envelop the viewer’s senses. Objects lacking context, disjointed sounds, and erratic lighting crash into one another, producing confusion and disorientation.

In the continuous misalignment of the signifier and the signified, the viewer’s perceptual system temporarily collapses. Their judgment is suspended as they confront the gap between concept and reality. The conflict between opposing forces—truth and falsehood, reality and fiction, reason and emotion—intensifies within the space.

“What humans desire recedes like a mirage the moment they reach for it. Because the object of desire can never be fully satisfied, humans pursue it again and again. Yet desire is a signifier that lacks a complete signified, an empty chain of signs that endlessly delays meaning.”
– Jacques Lacan, Theory of Desire

PERCEPTION  INDIVIDUAL engages with the very nature of desire. The viewer’s sense of reality is unsettled through the discordance of objects, sound, and light, while internal tensions unfold as attempts to distinguish illusion from the real.

The repeated slippage between the signifier and the signified reveals desire as a generative force that revives the instability of the perceptual system. In doing so, the work exposes how human perception, swayed by desire, becomes vulnerable among heterogeneous signs. It also poses ontological questions about representation(idea).