# Project Description

Repeating Shadows

You-Shiuan Chen

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Evian is a visual artist from Taiwan whose practice explores the intersection between digital and analog (physical) imagery. With a background in New Media Art and Fine Art drawing, she navigates across multimedia to challenge conventional ways of seeing, creating new and unexpected visual experiences that expand the possibilities of visual-making to develop her unique visual language.

Evian is a visual artist from Taiwan whose practice explores the intersection between digital and...

College London College of Communication

Course MA Illustration and Visual Media

Graduation year 2025

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.

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Repeating Shadows

The books display a different way of seeing, incorporating a timeline into this work, and how time reflects on it.

Repeating Shadows

All images originate from negative film. Apart from using digital photography, I aim to incorporate every unexpected process into the framework.

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