Untitled (The Sign)
2023
Digital C-print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper, disappearing ink on watercolor paper
30.4 x 38 cm
15 x 38 cm
A set of two
Out of his fascination with the shifting weather, WU subtly notices how its protean nature covertly and fiercely leave traces on the rear part of the road sign, making it a dynamic piece that is incessantly affected by the surrounding atmospheric conditions. By erasing its communicative functions, the road sign becomes a landscape in itself and together with the fading text as juxtaposed it eloquently sets up the work’s conceptual parameters — how it simultaneously records a state and yet soon gets overridden, drawing an analogy to weather data, traces left on the signage, nature of image-making and c-print process per se.
The body of work shows the very first photograph, which was taken in Vidoy, Faroe Islands. From then on an array of photographic images of the same subject have been produced throughout the road trip and also during his subsequent stay in Iceland that serves up a topographical collection of alternative weather study.
