Overlapping Twin Shadows
# Expanded Cinema # Data Poetics
Introduction
Overlapping Twin Shadows is a five‑channel stereo video installation that weaves fragments of everyday landscapes into a continuously shifting audiovisual collage through a multi‑screen layout. Structured in several chapters, the work focuses on the overlaps, echoes and interferences between light, foliage, water surfaces and traces of human presence.
The piece employs multiple media: time‑lapse footage, macro photography, infrared imaging, and AI‑generated visuals derived from live‑action recordings. Throughout the projection, the screen structure remains fixed, while the images within each frame keep drifting, repeating and transforming—like memories replayed again and again from different viewpoints. Natural scenes and their abstract, algorithmically processed “doubles” coexist in parallel, forming overlapping “twin shadows” that blur the boundaries between observation and imagination, documentation and illusion.
By layering loops of different rhythms across the five channels, the work invites viewers to wander through the images with their gaze and assemble their own pathways through time. What first appears to be ordinary scenery gradually unfolds into a study of rhythm, texture, and the fragile connection between perception and place. It also raises a question: among the many recorded and retouched versions of a scene, which one is the true face of reality? Between overlapping shadows and illusions, where are we heading?
