SOMETIMES MY EYES CHANGE THEIR MIND explores fleeting moments when we lose our ability to see clearly – when we are overwhelmed by the places we move through. "sometimes my eyes change their mind" is a phrase jacek’s daughter used to describe how, at times, she feels that things change color for a moment – or she sees shadows out of the corner of her eye. in this series of works, it serves as a metaphor for the duality inherent in vision. on one hand, sight is something we use to scan and master the world – but on the other, it is something that can be overwhelmed, flooded with impressions that emerge on the periphery of our vision, in the corner of the eye. these are the things out of focus; the visual disturbances that remain unclear to us but, in their vagueness, are unreadable, incomprehensible, out of focus or out of sight. it is the appearance of something we don’t normally notice – a brief moment where we lose our full ability to orient ourselves in the world.

it is these moments that Kasper Jacek's works explore: moments when vision is not a tool we fully control, but something that hallucinates, something exposed to and overwhelmed by the world – and in that process, opens up new ways of seeing. visual disturbances are one of the fundamental metaphors of the works – understood as a kind of opening to the world, where we see things differently when our grasp on the world is disrupted, and we are briefly disoriented. it’s the clearing in the forest that both conceals and illuminates, the twilight moment when we lose the ability to distinguish things, and the moments when we see visions.

as in jacek’s earlier works, he is fascinated by the idea of places and landscapes as multi-temporal scenes, where visions of the future and old traces, objects, and memories coexist in the landscapes and places we pass through. all the works move in a constant state of asymmetry – or in a kind of imbalance: between light and dark; between being out of focus and in focus; between something present and something that only remains as a shadow of itself; between surfaces that are covered and illuminated; between inside and outside; between dusk and dawn; between the blurry and the clear; between the visible and the invisible; between the ordered and the chaotic; between the abstract and the figurative.