Three-channel video and sound installation 2026
Three projections, two loudspeakers, wooden frames with canvas Dimensions variable
8:04 min, loop
Sound Design: Laima Adelaide
Voice: Xy June Li & Marcel Michel
Breaking Horizon is a multimedia installation that invites audiences to inhabit a different time-space orientation.
In Chinese, the day before yesterday is “the day in front,”
the day after tomorrow is “the day behind,” a spatial grammar that corresponds to the posture of Walter Benjamin’s Angelus Novus, facing the wreckage of the past, driven backwards into an unseen future.
Working with Yuk Hui’s reading of xuan (玄), where opposites are not two things but one, differently named, the work asks how we gaze across time, and how silenced violence in history approaches us from behind.
At a certain point, the orientation reverses. Past and future exchange places in the room. Between the two states, everything goes white and the voices lose their direction: the present, in which neither can yet
be named.
The work runs as a cycle with no beginning and no end.
Each return is not the same.
