An Equal World is a single-channel video work that explores the material discourse of the digital screen—the apparatus through which digital images are displayed. Drawing from the artist’s personal experiences and imagination, the work arranges visual materials of varied textures to investigate the dual materiality of both image and interface. Moving across three scales—pixel, human individual, and the Earth—it reveals how our realities are shaped by the illusions produced by media technologies.
The screen, as a medium for digital imagery, is also an illusion-producing machine, now omnipresent. Pixels—the screen’s fundamental units—are evenly distributed across its surface, each granted equal capacity to display changing content. In this sense, the screen becomes a world of averaged, ever-shifting possibilities. In contrast, the artist—as a singular, embodied human being—remains fixed in place, unable to access the same fluid equality. The artist thus becomes a ghost within the virtual world, using the video to speculate on what the reality they inhabit would look like if it, too, were governed by the logic of averages, as a response to the injustice embedded in this asymmetry.
