Transfixed 24 06 19 Hazel Moore And Tori Easton...

Collaborative Chemistry: Moore and Easton first crossed paths during a residency at the Cranbrook Institute in 2017. Their shared interest in the “invisible infrastructure of looking” led to a series of informal experiments with motion‑capture and mirrored surfaces, eventually coalescing into Transfixed.

Transfixed operates within a lineage of contemporary works that question the ethics of observation—think of Sophie Calle’s The Hotel (2004) or Hito Steyerl’s How Not to Be Seen (2013). Moore and Easton articulate a specific moment in the 21st‑century visual economy: the hyper‑surveilled public sphere where biometric cameras, data‑mining algorithms, and ubiquitous smartphones have turned every gaze into a data point. Transfixed 24 06 19 Hazel Moore and Tori Easton...

By juxtaposing archival political imagery (protestors, rallies) with personal, intimate close‑ups, the piece collapses the distance between the public and the private. The title Transfixed—derived from the dual meaning of “to be held in attention” and “to be pierced” (as in a needle)—captures this tension. Viewers are compelled to stare, yet the work simultaneously “pins” them within its visual field. Verify the Adult Entertainment Context