PROXY

2025 — ongoing
Ireland

This project emerged from working within limited time inside the home. As an artist and a parent, I develop my practice alongside everyday care and domestic routines.

A film camera was mounted on a robotic vacuum cleaner — a household device that performs repetitive maintenance tasks within the home. I set the photographic parameters in advance: long exposure, a self-timer, and a soft-focus manual lens. Once the process began, the moment of exposure and the point of view were no longer determined by my direct attention.

The process of image-making unfolded simultaneously with domestic activity. Photography became part of the continuous rhythm of home life, taking place during the maintenance of the space rather than in a separate, specially allocated time.

The robotic vacuum cleaner functioned as a carrier of the camera and as an intermediary of the gaze. Moving autonomously through the private space of the home, it produced images from a low, non-human point of view. The device followed its programmed paths without knowledge of the resulting images.

Human presence is absent from the frame but embedded in the structure of the process: in the configuration of conditions, in temporal limitations, and in the subsequent work with the photographic material — the film’s development and digitization carried out at home.

The resulting images register the movement of an automated device within a domestic interior. They articulate a form of authorship shaped by partial control, shared agency, and the redistribution of attention between artistic practice and everyday maintenance of space.