The work features a series of modified, upcycled LCDs of different brands and models. Each of these screens, through direct sight, emits a full and colored light without showing any content. The LED lighting system, which is normally used to display visual content in LCDs, is replaced with a custom one and controlled by an integrated circuit that generates interference patterns visible only through a smartphone camera. The visual outcome results from the interplay between the default rolling shutter speed of the camera and the duty cycle of the internal LED system.

Titled Could You Take a Picture?, the work invites visitors to use their cameras to reveal visual compositions hidden from the naked eye. This gesture mirrors a broader cultural shift, our increasing reliance on devices to mediate reality. The act of documenting has become so ubiquitous that it often replaces direct experience, reframing our memories and emotional connections through screens. By asking us to look through another screen to experience the work, and by exploiting the inherent limits of both the camera and our own visual system, the piece calls into question the authority of technological perception. It invites us to reconsider how these systems mediate experience and shape our understanding of the world. The work inserts a poetic glitch, an intentional ambiguity, into the stream of mediated experience.

At its core, it critiques our dependency on digital mediation and reveals how our perception of reality is increasingly filtered, delayed, and fragmented by the very tools we trust to make it clear.

Expositions

Arsenal Contemporary Art | BIAN - Montréal (CA)
Hyper Nature Exhibition - Pohang-si (KOR)