SSU CHI HOU | 侯思齊

Ssu Chi Hou Solo Exhibition

SCREEN IN ILLUSION

“Screen in Illusion” aims to transform the exhibition site into an image, i.e., the space from the ground floor to the top floor of Waley Art. By fusing digital images, spatial images, and video objects, the space becomes a field of images that mixes indistinguishable reality and virtual.

The screen is a well-used imagery technology in the digital era. Since the outer frame of the screen draws a boundary of images, does the image have (or can it have) a border? Ssu Chi Hou proposes a technique of image mapping to turn the border into an image, blurring the boundary between image (virtual) and reality, and expanding the image beyond the border to digitize the real space. If reality tends to be illusory, what is most real at that moment is the original border that defines reality and illusion, and what the border refers to, and how to define what is inside and outside the border, are the questions raised in this exhibition.

On the upper floors, the border relationship is further extended to reality, capturing the light and frame of the exhibition, trying to overlap the images with the architecture. The natural light of the real world and the digital light of the virtual image intertwine, constantly framing the real and the virtual in and out of space. The floors create layers of stacked image space, which can be viewed as a compressed total image or broken down into separate experiences like layers. This exhibition invites the audience to re-examine the digital every day from different perspectives and to respond to the technical thinking and visual cognition generated by the image mechanism in our time while jumping out of the space where we are and cannot jump out of the scene.

The space in which the works are displayed is seen as an illusory field, where the screen itself is framed, and the exhibition space itself is also a frame around the artworks. Is there a boundary between the real and the virtual, and is there a border between digital images? The space in which the works are displayed is seen as an illusory field, where the screen is framed, and the exhibition space is also a frame around the artworks.

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