Surfacing I
2022
Transparency in light box
24.4 x 35.4 x 5 cm each
A set of eight
Exploring the universality of photographic reading, Surfacing I (2022) centres around the physicality of the medium and the idea how one invariably penetrates and overlooks the surface of photographic images. Intentionally taken on a medium-format box camera, the work captures a plain wall on black and white film, presenting a set of eight monochromic soft-focus images that unearths the specks of dust, scratches and amongst other marks collected on the surface in its unrepeatable form.
The work appears to be devoid of content at first glance, but upon closer observation and inspection, the normally overlooked surfaces and their subtle details of what have been accumulating in and through time and spaces are then revealed. Despite each photograph looks intrinsically identical as each seemingly shares homogeneous elements, yet surprisingly looking close enough they are inherently different, in which each one has its own distinctive surface, where the deadpan details of the surfaces are shown up visually which acts as an obstruction between the contents and the viewers.
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