Afterimage
2025
Shan Wu & Drew Cavicchi
Gobo projector, motor, electronics, reclaimed pole
Afterimage traces the passage of time through light and movement. By day, its form casts shadows that follow the sun’s rhythm. At sunset, a motor-controlled projector, programmed using a Solar Positioning Algorithm, projects the silhouette of the pole’s shadow as it slowly retraces its motion through the day. Through this subtle choreography, Afterimage reanimates the dialogue between natural and artificial light, reflecting on how perception, memory, and technology shape our sense of time and space.
Shan Wu
Shan Wu (b. 1991), originally from Taipei, Taiwan, is a creative-being, art nomad, and artivist. She works in film, photography, installation, land art, conceptual sculpture and community-engagement practice. Her eclectic interests in materials and subject matters manifest in her work in which she investigates gender, cultural and national identity, science and technology in culture, site-specificity and human-nature relationship. Her work has been exhibited in Taiwan, the US, and her film has been screened internationally.
Shan Wu and Drew Cavicchi continually to work as an artist duo on numourous projects. The body of work containing photographs, installations, and sculptures that explore progression, aesthetics, illusion, and implied structure. The series collides human-made structure with landscape, exposing the idea of framing, boundaries, perceptions, and the relationship between human and nature.