The Borderers (2024)
Material: projector, Stable Diffusion (AI), p5.js, table, archival materials, photography etc.
The Borderers is a video installation work in which the artist trained a generative AI (GAN) model, with both the 2500 photographs of the skin inflammation of animals affected by various man-made pollution, as well as 2,500 satellite images of planetary surfaces where historically severe contamination has been experienced. This process generated over 5,000 photographs of the grey spectrum between skin and landscape.
Through an intimate caressing gaze, the artist attempts to
subvert socially constructed narrative and planetary trauma
which abjects more-than-human deformity and illnesses which scholar Mel Chen calls Queer Toxicities. The anonymous skin of a land speculates on the gravity of the pain of our planet, which fluctuates between different scales, locations, and time. Fragments of imaginary lands that could have existed "elsewhere" pose questions concerning post-humanism, anthropocene, pain, and intimacy in the foreseeable future.
