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1. Instruction 1–4
Instruction 1–4 places instructional and informational signs—typically regarded as secondary or unimportant in exhibition spaces—at the center of attention. Visitors examine these signs through a magnifying glass, making visible the institutional conditions that shape viewing, such as gaze, behavior, and spatial positioning. The work transforms the language of instruction into art, revealing how our senses and actions are shaped and controlled.
2. Trick
Through a visual illusion involving everyday objects encountered by the artist, the work questions our visual perception and the relativity of perspective. The illusion operates between sensation and understanding, revealing the gap between seeing and recognizing.
3. Typo
This image captures a work description the artist encountered at the Venice Biennale, where a single word blurs the line between error and intention. The viewer must interpret this uncertainty, turning the act of reading itself into an active part of the viewing experience—shifting from passive observation to interpretive engagement.
4. Proposition 65
Proposition 65 is a 1986 California law requiring warnings on products containing chemicals linked to cancer or birth defects. As of 2025, over 900 substances are listed, and nearly half of all products sold in California bear warnings—though their use is not banned. These warnings visualize danger, yet their ubiquity normalizes and obscures it, functioning more as liability management than actual protection.
5. Error (by Upspring Creative)
The HTTP 404 Not Found error is not merely a failure, but a signal of a functioning system—an intentional absence that both reveals and conceals digital structures. Error captures this coded signal in analogue form, re-translating it through digital photography and print into physical material to explore the layered nature of media and how such purposeful failures are embedded in everyday systems.
6. Stay Still
Stay Still is an installation in which video is distorted by the viewer’s movement and sound, revealing the underlying structure of what we perceive as “natural” images in our daily lives through digital devices. By exposing and disrupting the RGB color system, the work questions how digital images simulate reality. The more the viewer moves, the more the illusion breaks down—mirroring how our vision is shaped by technological and symbolic systems that resemble the structure of the human eye.
7. Keep Moving
Keep Moving is a three-part video work (Proposition, Instruction, Institution) in which stillness triggers a live feed of the viewer, while movement reveals the actual video content. Referencing systems like Proposition 65 and Error 404, the work explores how visibility and invisibility are deployed to manage risk and regulate behavior. It challenges the notion of artistic autonomy by showing how even perception and movement are shaped by institutional logic.
8. (Not Realized) Art for Birds and Bugs
(Not Realized) Art for Birds and Bugs began with the sign "Please Do Not Toss Coins into the Artwork," which the artist encountered in a museum. The gesture of coin-tossing reflects human desire and belief, prompting reflections on the origins of art and its ties to faith. This led to the question: what might art mean to non-human beings? For birds and bugs, beauty may relate to survival—perhaps pointing to the essence of what we now call art.
The project envisioned a space for these non-human agents, but due to institutional constraints, it remained unrealized and exists only as a prototype.