Why EXPOSE

Do I see the other
or do I project?

Everything begins here.

From a question that does not concern the world,
but the way one looks at it.

The gaze is not neutral.
It is exercised,
or it withdraws.

When it is exercised,
something opens.
When it is avoided,
something hardens.

What the individual stops seeing
does not disappear.
It settles.

It becomes habit.
It becomes form.
It becomes structure.

Systems do not fail suddenly.
They deform slowly,
when the gaze separates
from consequences.

Every decision that does not see the other
becomes calculation.
Every reform that does not recognize
becomes procedure.

Power is not born blind.
It gets used to not seeing.

And when the gaze goes out,
violence does not arrive:
it finds space.

War does not start suddenly.
It is the last act
of a long renunciation of the gaze.

EXPOSE does not propose solutions.
It does not correct from above.
It does not point a way.

It remembers one thing only:

that a welcomed gaze
can still shed light.

And that no system
can last longer
than the gaze
of those who inhabit it.