Lianjiang Zhu
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At the Origin Lies the Likeness (2025)
Object-based installation, UV print on acrylic panels
52.8 x 52.8 cm, Consisting of 9 acrylic panels (each 17.6 × 17.6 × 2 cm)
Edition of 2 + 1AP
At the Origin Lies the Likeness is based on the first digital image created by Russell Kirsch in 1957— a portrait of his young son, Walden. Using UV layer printing on acrylic, I transform the image from a screen-based entity into a physical object, allowing it to shift and hover between transparency and refraction. The work foucus the dual nature of digital images: as traces of intimacy and memory (Benjamin’s notion of the aura), and as encoded translations under technical logic (Flusser’s concept of the “technical image”). In the interplay between visual and material states, it reveals the entanglement of reality and technology.
Object-based installation, UV print on acrylic panels
52.8 x 52.8 cm, Consisting of 9 acrylic panels (each 17.6 × 17.6 × 2 cm)
Edition of 2 + 1AP
At the Origin Lies the Likeness is based on the first digital image created by Russell Kirsch in 1957— a portrait of his young son, Walden. Using UV layer printing on acrylic, I transform the image from a screen-based entity into a physical object, allowing it to shift and hover between transparency and refraction. The work foucus the dual nature of digital images: as traces of intimacy and memory (Benjamin’s notion of the aura), and as encoded translations under technical logic (Flusser’s concept of the “technical image”). In the interplay between visual and material states, it reveals the entanglement of reality and technology.