Interview “I invite the audience to walk over the projections of their own shiny silhouettes” Cinema exposed Dominik Lejman attracted international attention with his innovative multiple layering of traditional painting and video projections. “My sources of inspiration are pure video recordings out of surveillance cameras, indifferently registering crowd activity, raw data. With recorded material I use simple negative inversion so you do not see the projection screen, just shiny figures in negative. Pavement or wall become the screen, but also gain their own texture, like in other video murals. The French philosopher Merleau-Ponty once referred to painting as a category of light, so in his terms I’m definitely a painter. I my work I often relate to the condition of exposed cinema theatre. When the movie almost comes to an end, already the lights go on: we see the faded projection but also we can see ourselves...” Step on it “I invite the public to walk over my projection as you can step on the work of famous sculptor Carl Andre. By exhibiting my artwork in public spaces I’m not planning to ‘sell’ any message, as advertizing does. I am simply an artist who wants to expose as ‘beautiful’ ornament all those indifferent images of us being looked at, coming purely from the omnipresent surveillance recording, which is a part of our environment. And of course, this is a statement. So I just expect the audience to pass by, over the projections of their own shiny silhouettes. To Pass is Enough...”.