2026PCM(2025)
Personhood(2024)
EMERGE:NCY(2023)
User(2026)
Metadata(2026)
Box Body(2023)
EMERGE:NCY(2023)
Site-specific anamorphic 3D video installation on outdoor LED display at Piccadilly Lights, London
17.56 × 44.62 m (57.6 × 146.4 ft)
02 min. 30 sec.
2023 / CIRCA2023 Screening (London, Milan, and Berlin)
2023 / CIRCA Public Vote Prize Recipient
EMERGE:NCY traps a monumental human within the London Piccadilly Lights, from which they struggle to break free. The work responds to the CIRCA 20:23 Manifesto of Hope by insisting that hope is not all optimism: it is also made of restlessness, despair, and confusion. The title is drawn from writer and activist Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark, in which she elaborates on hope as action despite uncertainty and posits that “Inside the word ‘emergency’ is ‘emerge’; from an emergency new things come forth”.
EMERGE:NCY was created in collaboration with Ruishuke Chen (cinematography) and Luling Wang (score).
This award-winning artwork was made in the shared basement entertainment room of an east london flat complex. It builds on a technique previously tested in Singapore through Box Body, but this iteration sought to introduce a more emotionally dynamic performance and the implication of space beyond the confines of the screen.
