In this ongoing project, members of the public are solicited to partake in an intimate exchange in which they present their palms and receive their fortunes transcribed onto paper for a small fee. The reading/writing is entirely silent.
where are you coming from?
where are you going to?
The project inquires into trust, intimacy, and power. Considered in a social and historical context, the figure of the fortune-teller raises questions about belief and desire as well as class and cross-cultural interaction.
In the depths of Dante’s Inferno, the fortune-tellers walk with their heads on backwards, punished for presuming to see the future. Fortune-telling is illegal in New York City