Left and Right, Hesitation

XIN Yunpeng
10 min. 43 sec.
Edition of 3
Two-channel video installation|Color with sound
2017
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Left and Right, Hesitation (2017) is a two-channel video work in which Xin Yunpeng plays the video “a pair of curtains being blown by the wind” separately on a customized double-screen screen. Because of the error of the electrical signal, the left and right independent playback systems cannot be locked at the exact moment, which makes the content of the two sides always separated by a period and cannot be fixed or artificially grasped. When the content of the relatively still picture appears, it will give the audience the illusion of the exact moment. It is not until the curtains are blown by a gust of wind that this relative stillness is broken, and the time difference between the left and right images is revealed – a breathing movement that never arrives at a natural unity. Through the multi-screen video installation, Xin Yunpeng divides the same image and places movement and time perception in a binary relationship between left and right, creating an “unnatural” time – deviating from the exact linear standard and implying a different concept of time than the scientific one.