Deleted Reality 2025 was presented at the China Hangzhou Art and Technology Biennale 2025, held at Yuhang Art Museum in Hangzhou, China.
To the naked eye, the work appears simply as a glowing white panel. Yet when viewed through a smartphone camera, bands of vibrant color emerge across the screen.
High-speed cameras are typically used to observe instantaneous phenomena that unfold too quickly for human perception. These devices, however, are costly and inaccessible for everyday use. This work instead makes use of the ubiquitous smartphone, offering a casual experience of phenomena beyond the reach of our human senses.
Most smartphone cameras employ a rolling shutter, recording each image sensor one line of pixels at a time with slight time delays between each line. As a result, a single photograph actually contains fragments of different moments woven together. Building on this effect, the work uses custom high-frequency flickering LEDs to render visible a reality imperceptible to the naked eye.
