«What Is Color Blue For You?»

An immersive, participatory art project exploring the limits of sensory experience and access to art. It begins with a paradoxical question: how can colour be described to someone who is blind? The project considers visual perception in the absence of sight, and whether a subjective experience can ever be described in universal terms.

The work is a large-scale modular panel created during the ColLab residency at GES-2. Each fragment is part of a character—an eye, paw, tail or another feature—made from materials including ceramics, fur, silicone and acrylic. Vivid colours and textured surfaces invite visitors to recognise shapes and shades through touch, opening the work to tactile perception.

Its interpretation of colour is informed by research into colour theory, from Goethe’s Theory of Colours to Derek Jarman’s Chroma. The work was developed in consultation with a psychologist specialising in visual impairment. Visitors are invited to encounter the object first with their eyes closed, through touch, and then visually, moving through detection, discrimination, identification and recognition.

This transition reveals the instability and conditional nature of visual experience. “Facets of Perception” serves as a tool for artistic exploration and education for both sighted and visually impaired audiences. The project broadens the idea of access to art, questions the dominance of vision in culture and invites us to understand the viewer as a sensing subject, rather than simply an observer.