Selected work / Optical apparatus

Parallax 2025

The blue binocular body of Parallax viewed obliquely. — Parallax, 2025. Oblique view.

A binocular apparatus in which one landscape appears as several images side by side.

Medium: Optical apparatus
Materials: ABS resin, aluminum, glass
Dimensions: W217 × H135 × D107 mm

Several images together

Parallax presents a landscape as several images side by side when viewed through its two openings. The view does not resolve into one stable image. The binocular form offers a familiar invitation to look, while the coexistence of images changes what the viewer finds beyond the eyepieces.

A viewpoint is made

Matsuura uses this unresolved view to question the idea of vision as a single, transparent window onto the world. Looking has a position, a distance and a body behind it. Within the group of optical apparatuses, Parallax brings plurality into one act of seeing. The work asks the viewer to attend to how a view is formed, as well as to the landscape that appears within it.

Views & encounters

Front view of Parallax showing the two circular viewing openings. — Front view of Parallax.

Matsuura’s sculptures on the central plinth at Ferrara Showman Gallery, including Reversal, Eye to Eye, Parallax and Abyss. Wall works by other artists are visible behind. — Parallax is the blue binocular work on the right of the central plinth. 30th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS, Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, 2026. Photograph: Mike Smith.

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