“ULTRAVIOLET LED GHOST HUNTING LAMP (da waves)”
2023
“Shori Sims’ multi-channel video installation ULTRAVIOLET LED GHOST HUNTING LAMP (da waves) puts us in the position of the surveillant. We stand before two screens, each split into four channels, themselves each monitoring a different area of a dimly-lit stairwell. A ghostly figure occupies one stairway, another figure occupies the other. The scholar Soyoung Yoon writes, “the very technology of color photography had been developed with white skin as norm, blowing out the varying tones and textures of darker skin, rendering it at times inseparable from the background, as if the illegibility of blackness was but a technical error.” Sims’ use of chroma-key blue merges the real and the virtual, evoking the work of artist Sondra Perry, who uses this color to comment on how Black identity is represented through technology and media.”
-- Brew House Arts, 2024
