About

What Do You See? is an art project that collects acts of selection.

The question at its center — what do you see? — asks for a choice. Among everything in front of you in this moment — a wall, a screen, a room, a memory, a thought that is not here — what do you name? Selection is the gesture: extracting one thing from the noise and declaring it more present than the rest.

The project is a device. A QR code somewhere — on a wall, in a gallery, in a passage — paired with the question. The scan leads to a black page with the question, a text field, and a submit button. The site stores only the text, a context code, and a timestamp. Nothing else. Your response cannot be linked back to you.

What Do You See? is in its collection phase. Each response is material. The work in its present state is the gathering itself: an open question, distributed across contexts, producing a corpus that grows. A future form may emerge from it — visual, textual, vocal, or another shape entirely. That form will be selected from the corpus, by the same logic that runs through the wider practice this project belongs to.

The device is built to travel. Each context — urban, domestic, institutional, anonymous, declared — produces different responses. The QR code in a gallery is not the QR code on a street. The same question, asked in different rooms, becomes a different question.

If you have responded, you have already done the thing the project is about: you have looked, you have chosen, you have named.

What Do You See? is a project by Luana Bagnasco.