What do surveillance cameras really see, and what do we see when we watch their footage?

Join us for a rare screening of Dragonfly Eyes (2017), the groundbreaking debut feature by acclaimed artist Xu Bing. Using only publicly available surveillance footage from China, where 700 million cameras silently record daily life, Xu pieces together an unsettling and poetic narrative about a woman leaving a Buddhist temple to find her place in modern society.

The result blurs the line between fact and fiction, ordinary and extraordinary, asking us to reconsider the nature of truth and knowledge in an age of constant observation.

Our Counter/Surveillance exhibition offers only a glimpse of the making of this work. This screening is a rare chance to experience the full film, and to reflect on how images, stripped of context, shape what we think we know.