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Public Safety Communications Center

Division of Public Safety

Anton Nazarenko: Eye Contact

Start Date: September 15, 2025
Start Time: 12:00 am
All Day Event? Yes
Location: Experimental Gallery, Tjaden Hall
Exhibition AbstractEye Contact is the product of a year of printmaking by Anton Nazarenko ('28), during which several questions frequently surfaced in his work, namely: How does denied or withdrawn eye contact challenge the viewer's perceived importance? How does it feel to observe a subject that refuses to look back? What is the role of eye contact in creating subordination and dynamics of inequality in interpersonal relationships? How can the architecture of the body — contours of the face, rims of glasses, silhouette of the shoulders, adjacent bodies in a crowd — attenuate or accentuate the directness of eye contact?