Chu Mirim

Chu Mirim (b. 1982) uses pixels and grids as Chu’s formal language to explore the web and the city, proposing new modes of communication at the threshold between the digital and the analog. For the artist, the digital pixel functions both as a central element of Chu’s daily environment and as a medium that evokes childhood memory. Chu perceives the web as a digital environment and the city as a physical one, recognizing them as coexisting conditions of contemporary life. By extracting geometric forms from pixels and satellite views of urban structures, Chu combines and repeats them through coding, creating experimental transformations. The similarities and differences discovered within these patterns generate new data images, which Chu reconfigures into works of painting, video, photography, and media. Through this process, Chu mediates dual communication between digital and analog realms, prompting reflection on the essence of a society driven by data.
Artworks
- Shape Tweening, 2022, Single-channel video, color, sound, 5 min. 59 sec. (loop), Ed. 3/5, A.P. 2

- 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. - Fire, 2023, Acrylic, paper collage on digital frame, single-channel video, 1 min. 4 sec. (loop)

- Rain, 2023, Acrylic, paper collage on digital frame, single-channel video, 50 sec. (loop)

- Star Drive, 2023, Acrylic, paper collage on digital frame, single-channel video, 1 min. 13 sec. (loop)

- Scrolling, 2023, Acrylic on paper panel, 70 × 70 cm

- Scrolling, 2023, Single-channel video, 3 min. 30 sec. (loop), Ed. 3/5, A.P. 2

- Lights (B/W), 2023, Acrylic on paper panel, 31.2 × 52 cm

- Lights, 2023, Digital frame, single-channel video, 3 min. 5 sec. (loop), 31.5 × 52.3 × 4.1 cm, Ed. 3/5, A.P. 2

