Paradox
2024
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The work is about a letter written by the protagonist to his friend’s younger brother, interspersed with fragments of past conversations. From his perspective, the protagonist reconstructs the elder brother—someone the younger sibling has never met—along with the stories shaped by his impressions.
Paradox adopts space, hand-painting, and stop-motion animation as its primary materials. The imagery is arranged in the form of an essay film, where every event both occurs and remains suspended in absence, like Voyager 1 turning back to capture Earth’s faint reflection, or like matter dissolving into nothingness after combustion.
Visually, the work unfolds through a two-channel installation that lets images drift between digital and analog registers, creating illusions in the in-between, where reality and fiction overlap. What distinguishes this process is the use of AI not as a producer of the final images, but as a backstage collaborator. AI generates scripts and visual prompts, offering directions for scenes and compositions. Yet instead of relying on its direct outputs, the artist manually translates these prompts into frame-by-frame stop-motion sequences, blending human labor with algorithmic suggestion.
This inversion reconfigures the relationship between human and machine: AI becomes the hidden screenwriter, while the artist serves as executor and interpreter. The immediacy of generative output is deliberately slowed down, re-materialized through manual craftsmanship, and transformed into a tangible visual narrative.
In this way, Paradox situates itself in the shifting territory between memory and imagination, digital logic and human gesture. The story of the absent brother becomes more than a personal reconstruction—it reflects the tension of presence and absence, authorship and mediation, human agency and algorithmic influence. What the audience encounters is not just the protagonist’s letter, but also the subtle interplay between the voice of the artist and the silent framework of AI, continuously reshaping one another in cycles of translation and reinterpretation.