IRIS YAUN

25 — CT

In my photographs, motion picture work, writing, and personal research, I contemplate the nature of vision—sight, and seeing too.

I am interested in the space between looking and recognizing, the space between glances where comprehension seems to actually emerge. I am interested too in the ways vision is deeply tangible and embodied, occurring not in some idealist theater in the aether, but rather, in the flesh, right here, right now, inescapably consubstantial with materiality.


Technically, I reinterpret the sterility of scientific imaging processes and anneal these methods into a way of seeing that feels, and refuses to deny either its own construction or the body constructing it.

The ways of seeing at work in scanning electron microscopy in biology and synthetic aperture radio telescope imaging in astronomy need not remain confined to the lab or the observatory, and certainly not to the notion of disembodied ‘objective’ truth.