Ground Truth, or How to Resurrect A Tree
Hong-Kong / Finland
2022
Ground Truth offers a parallel between the evolution of visual technology and our perception of our surroundings. This project sheds light on the study of the forests of Finland carried out by a group of scientists using hyperspectral imaging. In her work, Sheung Yiu interweaves archival imagery, documentary photography and experimental data to acquaint the reader with the mathematical models that provide the tools to “resurrect” trees from a two-dimensional image. Paradoxically, the more technology develops, the more abstract our vision becomes. Ground Truth highlights the complexity of seeing inherent to and characteristic of the age of algorithms as it addresses the boundaries of satellite imaging.
With the support of the Finnish Institute in France.
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About the artist
Born in 1991 in Hong-Kong, Sheung Yiu is an image-based artist and doctoral researcher based in Helsinki. His work examines the poetics and politics in contemporary digital culture through an artistic practice and multi-disciplinary collaborations using photography, videos, installations and bookmaking.