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Kan Xuan 闞萱
Or Everything I 亦或所有 I
2005
These ten screens show photographic close-ups of ten Buddhist statues in different styles, including a child made of white-glazed porcelain and a copper laughing Buddha. Kan Xuan shot the statues using a digital camera with a rolling shutter, which introduces a slight time difference as an image gets captured progressively row by row, from top to bottom. The delay distorts the photographs and alters our perception. Bending and moving, the statues look like they are shivering or laughing and showing a range of emotions. The effect makes us rethink how the production of images affects human perception.
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