With the impact of consumerism, the Internet and advertising, the world we currently live in is visually over stimulating to a point where one questions the effects on the individual. My work is concerned with how this affects the human state of mind, in particular from a male perspective. The installation Visual Incompetence is comprised of a single film exploring how the abundance of visual stimuli and gender stereotypes might condition male identity and sexual expectations. Further concerns are the how we engage with the world through the aesthetics found in the details of everyday life. The film is the production of a fluid narration of collage, following a male cut out character that enhances a sense of being out of sync and his journey through a corrupted distressing landscape. Collage has been used as a means to reflect on the “deep relationship with traumas and violations.” - as expressed by Massimiliano Gioni in his essay It’s Not the Glue that Makes the Collage, (2007, p.12). The music is in collaboration with musician Thomas Mark Harvey.