Soft Calibration Targets—v01

[Multi-Channel Video Sculpture, 4 Monitors, Different Optical Devices] "Soft Calibration Targets—v01" is a video sculpture that explores image capture and display calibration charts, and their role in enabling technology to claim an objective representation of reality. Evoking the staged props and idealized scenes found in film test charts, the work constructs a series of targets that resist functionality—where perfection collapses into alteration, distortion, and decay. Echoing the figure of the “leader lady” and her fundamental role in cinema’s calibration fantasies, the project offers an absurd and queer rendering of her presence. Within these stylised scenes, errors and noise emerge: objects are scratched, cut, and burned; shadows interrupt the perfect scenarios. Through these disruptions, the images gradually lose their authority as reference points, opening up a space of misrecognition. These shifting states extend into the sculptural structure itself. Fractured across different monitors, each seemingly displaying a pure white light, latent images are revealed only when viewed through an optical device. What first appears empty becomes encoded, haunted by visual and aesthetic ruptures. In this way, "Soft Calibration Targets—v01" proposes a poetics of refraction, valuing softness, opacity, and fragile beauty.