餘白之閾
The Threshold of Residual Light
2025
All definitions of perception, cognition, and matter unfold within time.
This installation traces how the meaning of white—often assumed to be pure and universal—has continuously shifted across history, reflecting the tools and beliefs of each era.
In myth and early philosophy, white appeared as a warm, pale light associated with origin, life, and divinity. In classical and medieval medical contexts, lime white became a material of disinfection and quarantine, embedding white into systems of hygiene, control, and social order. Today, in the age of AI, white re-emerges as a cool, data-driven tone shaped by digital imaging standards and cinematic grading, projecting precision, neutrality, and technological authority.
medium:
Stainless steel, PMMA, optical filter, LED
Stainless steel, PMMA, optical filter, LED
dimensions:
262cm x 4.5cm x 4.8cm
262cm x 4.5cm x 4.8cm
Through an ongoing dialogue with artificial intelligence, the work forces a negotiation between these historical memories of white and contemporary algorithmic logic, generating multiple, unstable definitions. These variations are condensed onto a slender, 2.5-meter light strip, forming a temporal cross-section where different epochs coexist as gradients of colour temperature.
Subtle overlaps between warm and cool whites produce optical aberrations, moments where perception slips and certainty dissolves. An optical film restricts the viewing angle, ensuring that each viewer encounters only a fragment of the whole—alone, partial, and unshared.
The installation reflects a contemporary condition: a world shaped by advanced tools yet fractured by personalised perception, where colour, memory, and truth no longer converge into a single, stable definition.
Subtle overlaps between warm and cool whites produce optical aberrations, moments where perception slips and certainty dissolves. An optical film restricts the viewing angle, ensuring that each viewer encounters only a fragment of the whole—alone, partial, and unshared.
The installation reflects a contemporary condition: a world shaped by advanced tools yet fractured by personalised perception, where colour, memory, and truth no longer converge into a single, stable definition.
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