Cloud Walk, 2023, Acrylic, paper collage on digital frame, single-channel video, 56 sec. (loop)

In this series of works, including Cloud Walk, Fire, Rain, and Star Drive, Chu Mirim explores the dual spaces of the web and the city through the digital formal language of pixels and grids, proposing new modes of communication that move between the digital and the analog. To materialize the smallest unit of the screen, the pixel, the artist uses paper and acrylic blocks, attaching or juxtaposing them with digital video to visualize the intersection between material and virtual dimensions. Each work functions as a collage-based video that treats the screen as a canvas, intertwining material and data, stillness and movement, surface and depth to investigate the layered structure of the image.In this series, paper and acrylic function not merely as materials but as sculptural mediators that complement the immateriality of digital images and expand their sensory dimension. Transparent acrylic absorbs and reflects light, interacting with the pixels of the moving image, while paper carries traces of touch and gesture, reinforcing the screen’s physical presence. Through this combination, Chu constructs a space where the immateriality of the digital image and the tactile texture of the physical world coexist, reinterpreting the sensory duality and visual habits experienced within the digital interface.