The Blind Passenger / Der blinde Passagier

 

Unpublished video installation, 2026

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1-channel video, 3:26 min., colour, sound, vertical format 9:16
iPhone footage, voice-over, English subtitles
with wall work: finger paint on recycled paper, 235 × 87 cm

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On 8 March 2026, during a flight from Cape Town to Zurich, a small fly appears in the cabin. A blind passenger. Throughout the journey, it keeps returning to my hand and to the pages of the book I am reading. I begin to observe it: the words it touches, its movements, its damaged leg, its repeated disappearances and returns.

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What begins as a minor disturbance turns into a precise, comic and increasingly enigmatic observation. The fly becomes an involuntary companion, a possible observer — and a visible symbol for what travels unnoticed in the wake of global mobility: animals, plants, pathogens, fears and projections.

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The installation combines spontaneous iPhone footage and a voice-over with a large hand-painted wall work based on a digital map of the African continent. The monitor recalls the intimate screen on board the aircraft, while the wall work translates the geography beneath the flight into a tactile, bodily trace.

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The video has not yet been publicly screened or exhibited.