Un-Titled
From 2AM




︎︎
2016 & 2024
What You Can “See” Isn’t Real
and ...
There is No Way to Prove It

︎
Duratrans print, Light Box with wood frame, video
Installation view | Goldsmiths University XV Degree Show 
︎
UN-Titled From 2AM (2016) utilised light movements in different train carriages through various midnights’ journeys in Germany and Austria to ask the philosophical question about what our naked eyes actually see and how our brain actually processes  visual information. Do you consider visual informtion  as “ Real? Reality? or Hallucinations?”

-Exhibition-
The artwork includes four Duratran pictures onto light boxes and a 3'01" non-narrative documentary video.

It should be presented in a fully dark place with two separate areas. The audience is invited to see the four pictures in one area. After the four pictures’ experiences, they will be invited to another area to watch the 3’01” documentary video. To complete the whole process, it is highly recommended to switch back and forth few times. 

︎ Interview by Focus LDN Finding Light in the Dark - Interview by Focus LDN


︎
Documentary Video |3'01"

The whole process took place during several night train journeys in Germany and Austria. These journeys helped me to find the visual answers to several contemporary visual questions. Through it, 2AM accidently became a starting point. I defined it as the begining of “the real performances”. In this video I recorded those performances including light movements, tiny little sounds in different silent nights and how space and time harmonious intertwine with each other...

All Rights Reserved © Wan-Ru, Lin 2016