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Alluvial is a show about the time and space between our memories and the actual past, as well as in between the projector and the screen. In this intermediary time and space, light transforms from an intangible material to an image carrying legible information; it is the same process specific to digital time-based media that conditions our memories, identification with the past and connections with the world. Like water, the camera and the projector generate (non)time and (non)space where memories and time are eroded and deposited, corrupted and preserved.

Originally conceived to be installed in a gallery, the majority of this show was installed and documented in an empty college dorm room due to covid-19.  The room is now emptied and locked. The poster, which was installed and exhibited in a group show in February 2020, was the only piece spatialized in a physical gallery.

Yunzi Shi studies architecture, media arts and urban studies at Princeton University.
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Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank
my advisors, Kenneth Tam, Jeff Whetstone, and Pam Lins for their invaluable guidance and input
Nick Sharpe and Eric Li for generously helping me with technical issues
the Visual Arts Program faculty and staff for the continuous help and support
the VIS cohort for the warmth and inspirations
Princeton University for the past five years
family and friends, for your love
art, for what it is and is not

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