Tantalus is a multi-channel installation composed of mirrors, lenticular prints, video, and camera movement. It explores the structure of visual desire through the failed connections between natural light and human intervention, image and reality.The work begins with a sculptural object installed outdoors. A mirror placed on the ground reflects fragments of a lenticular image of the sun—video segments suspended above. Yet, at the very moment when the real sun reaches the mirror’s surface, the camera shutter closes. Click. The image halts.
This repeated interruption, just before capture, re-enacts the structure of sensory failure at the edge of arrival. Within the exhibition space, six monitors play back the footage at different intervals—5 seconds, 15 seconds, 23 seconds—layering the regular but staggered rhythm of clicks in a web of overlap and dissonance.Depending on the viewer’s moment of entry, these sounds may accidentally align into a fleeting harmony, or scatter into divergent rhythms that reverberate independently.Within the same structure, the same imagery, and the same rules, asynchronous temporalities collide and slip past one another—leaving behind only the repeated traces of failed contact.