Images of ScreenshotsReal-time interactive imageDimensions variable2024

Screenshots have become a familiar and pervasive form of image. Simple and instantaneous to produce, they offer convenience and precision that resonate with contemporary life. Screenshots are inherently documentary. Within a single captured frame, they reveal what individuals find important, what draws their attention, or what they wish to preserve. In a digital environment where access is fleeting or restricted, taking a screenshot is intentional and deliberate. Each image carries specificity, functioning as a document rich in information, purpose, and personal context. Saturated with public data, screenshots can also be intensely private. Their content may include: reservation confirmations, video calls, bank transfers, saved articles, disappearing stories, surveillance footage…

Images of Screenshots engages with the screenshot as both medium and subject. Through distortion, magnification, and layering of countless captures, the work evokes a shared digital memory—a collective archive shaped by daily habits and passing moments. This communal texture of contemporary information gestures toward digital romanticism. The work unfolds like a documentary film, a fragment of memory, or a digital landscape.

Technical Consultant:

Yi-Quan Chen

Photography:

Pei-Yun Chen

Yu-Chen Cheng