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There are two events and one story.

(1) One day, while casually filming a highway journey, I stumbled upon a landscape produced by the overlap of two different intervals at different speeds. At speeds of around one hundred kilometers per hour, the cylindrical separator posts, as seen by the naked eye, produce visual persistence. However, when the camera’s shutter interval precisely matches the spacing between the pillars, a new sequence emerges: at certain moments, the images overlap completely, causing the cylinders to appear stationary, tilted, rotating, or even moving forward as if dancing.

(2) Train windows segment the scenery into sequences, and moving images are likewise composed of sequences of photographs. Sometimes I wonder: what happens in the intervals—in places beyond my perception? How much space and time actually pass between one window and the next?

(3) We automatically fill in these gaps with our imagination. But if, in fact, time and space undergo folding—or any form of transformation—within those intervals, then the world would be entirely different from what we imagine. Science fiction may reside within everyday life.

2024 Self-Testing Starts

King Car Cultural & Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Photo by Chu Chi-Hung.

Photo by Chu Chi-Hung.

Exhibition view (filmed by KO LAIHE; edited by LIN Pei-Yao)

Credits

Video Filming & Editing: LIN Pei-Yao
Car Seat Base Design: Sam Yong
Projection Film Mounting: Wu Yi-Jhen, Sam Yong
Technical Support: Xu Ming-Qian, Shih Li-Jia