Mirror, spotlight, timer, 4.1-channel sound, 7 drawings, 2024

In Under the Cold Sun a spotlight is placed in front of a mirroring surface. Throughout the course of thirty minutes the spotlight is programmed to gradually increase its luminosity from 1 to 100 percent. As the amount of light intensifies it creates a sensation of a synthetic celestial body emerging from the reflective surface of the mercurial mirror.

The sound is made up of a permutating 4-chord pattern played through a digitally-synthesised organ. This organ is retuned using a 31-EDO system which creates sensations and occurrences of beating patterns. The light and sound are synced and were imagined as a system of order that gets infected and possesed.

Ink drawings of round black objects are placed onto adjacent wall and lit on the otherwise-dark walls.

 

Commissioned by the 9th Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan.