WORK
The Vanishing Prophecy No.2
INFO
Video Installation
Video / 6-inch OLED Module / Screen Drive Module / Raspberry Pi / Wireless Power Module / Acrylic / Aluminum Base / Customized Power
40 × 40 × 177 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
2020
DESCRIPTION
The Vanishing Prophecy No.2, lays OLED displays in tanks filled with transparent electrical insulating oil, which provides stability at high temperature and commonly used for high-voltage switches and circuit breakers. The submerged OLED screens illustrate either circulating lines of existential questions chosen by the artist or video footage filmed by the artist that closely examines the body of a model. The screen-composited installations are presented at eye-level to resemble the display of a peculiar specimen of machine intelligence from the future, preserved in formaldehyde solution. This series of works brings forth the ethical consequences of technological immortality and illuminates the nuances between human and humanoid by applying existentialist questions to the futuristic beings, posing a powerful argument in both the literal and the imagined contexts. The tanks also serve as an allegory to the urban environment we dwell in, while the bent screens delicately insinuate the curvilinearity of human form; generated by an invisible yet predetermined digital system, the curious containers epitomize and embody the relationship between human beings and their living environment mediated by technology.





