Island on the Run


2022

Mixed media installation


Island on the Run interweaves montages of real and virtual scenes through six media.  Faced with the De-extinction process and personal ornithophobia, it envisions a future island scenario, where an extinct bird called MOA has undergone a second extinction after being successfully resurrected. AI-generated images are collaged with the captured reality, an artificial botanical garden, blurring the orientation to time and space.

Are we moving forward, or are we circling back to square one?






Installation view, All Clear, XMU Exhibition Gallery, Xiamen, China, 2022

Installation view, Rehearsal, Open Museum of ICI of XMU, Xiamen, China, 2022
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