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404: Reality Not Found

Year: 2025
Medium: Photography

Project statement / English

Digital technology infiltrates our lives in a surreal yet subtle way, transforming everyday spaces into stages governed and observed by invisible systems. The photographs capture “anomalies” in the city—surveillance devices, advertising screens, artificial plants, and people constantly filming—revealing how technology quietly reshapes our relationship with the world. At the same time, staged still lifes turn mirrors, data cables, and time devices into symbolic “intruders,” creating a visual sense of a world experiencing a “system error.” Inspired by Hito Steyerl, Trevor Paglen, and Jon Rafman, the project poses a fundamental question: as technology permeates our perception and experience, is the world we inhabit still real, or has it already become an illusion rewritten by digital logic?

项目介绍 / 中文

数字技术并不总是突然闯入生活。更多时候，它悄无声息地改变我们熟悉的空间，让街道、房间和城市角落，像是逐渐进入某个看不见的系统。监控设备、广告屏幕、仿真植物，还有不断举起手机拍摄的人——这些寻常景象开始显出一点异常，也让人与周遭世界的关系变得不再确定。

镜子、数据线和计时装置出现在摆拍的静物中，像是不请自来的闯入者。它们让画面有了某种“系统错误”般的感觉：熟悉的世界还在眼前，却仿佛已经被另一套逻辑改写。在希托·斯泰耶尔、特雷弗·帕格伦和乔恩·拉夫曼等创作者的启发下，这个项目留下一个无法轻易回答的问题：当技术进入我们的感知与经验，我们所生活的世界仍然真实吗？还是说，它早已成为数字逻辑重新编写的幻象？

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