Can’t Result, Can Also Result

2-Channel Video, Canvas Output, Flat Output

2021

Wild stories stem from single internet screenshots. Things happen at where rumors stem from air.

Within the social relations of the media age, people have long been accustomed to using images as a medium for understanding the world. The symbols and messages these images contain scurry around in the rapid and massive torrent of information, in turn becoming a pure and symbolistic token of communication. The weight of their original messages are gradually lost, transforming them instead into a text type with superficial characteristics and a reading function.

Artists, the indigenous peoples of the internet age, know very well how to understand more of the world through the internet. Facing the evolution of contemporary reading habits, the work Can’t Result, Can Also Result drifts freely in the digital flow of “poor images.” Through a screen desktop, image materials and multiple folders, the artist displays stock imagery he collected on the Internet as well as self-produced material, mixing together both high-quality and low-quality images. Under a Macbook’s operative system, these images are then controlled, played, moved, zoomed, collaged, and appropriated with a cursor, reconstructing the original image order.