Black Car on White Background
Selected Frames from Black Car on White Background
In Black Car on White Background, an eight-hour snowfall gradually engulfs a parked vehicle; upon its departure, a dark silhouette is left traced in the snow. Moving beyond simple documentation, the work employs digital translation to convert this ephemeral physical imprint into a scalable vector field.
Oscillating between observation and abstraction, the piece holds in tension the organic temporality of snow, the precision of digital mediation, and the persistence of memory. By imbuing a transient natural phenomenon with a new visual existence, the work reveals how ephemeral natural events gain a renewed form through artificial encoding, leveraging the borderless nature of vector translation to allow an ephemeral physical imprint to be infinitely scaled and perpetuated within the digital sphere.
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Technical Information
Artist: Le Xi
Title: Black Car on White Background
Year: 2023
Medium: Single-channel HD video, color, silent
Duration: 1:09 min (loop)
Dimensions: Variable
Edition of 3 + 1 AP