Lucida Book

This publication accompanies the Lucida exhibition with essays by Dr Marius Kwint, Reader in Visual Culture, University of Portsmouth, Dr Richard Wingate, Head of Anatomy, King’s College London and Gareth Evans, Film Curator, Whitechapel Gallery.

Lucida is an immersive moving image installation, a touring exhibition and an artist’s publication exploring the human eye, vision and the brain.

The project brings together the diverse, subjective perspectives of scientists, psychologists and ordinary people, who each have their own compelling story about vision.

The artworks uses moving images as a starting point to unlock and investigate how multiple projections of the world focus on the physical structure of the human eye; the latest biomedical research and theory about how the brain processes and interprets sensory perception to create sight; and the role that art can play in providing metaphors to understand what perception means.

Lucida seeks to make the viewer distinctly aware of seeing by bringing the perceptual process – including its flaws, imperfections and assumptions – to the forefront. The interactive artwork will prompt its viewers to look again at the world around us and ponder if what we see is actually what is before our eyes.

The multilayered soundtracks are composed by Dominik Scherrer, the winner of the 2014 Ivor Novello Award.