You-Shiuan Chen

Repeating Shadows questions what constitutes a “perfect” image and how such perfection shapes the ways we see. By navigating between the digital and the physical, the work explores the instability of visual reproduction. Combining negative photography and printmaking, it embraces the uncertainty and continuity of repeated printing, transforming chance and failure into essential elements of image-making.

Through this process, imperfection becomes both method and meaning of a visual language that resists the modern obsession with technical precision. The work reclaims imperfection not as a flaw to be corrected but as a site of emotional truth, suggesting that only through instability, error, and repetition can the image reveal its most authentic.