Unfollow the Momentary Resonance

AC motor, steel balls, acrylic sheets, fog machine, wood panels, ceramic tiles

45x45x90cm

Unfollow the Momentary Resonance (2025) is an installation that explores the traces of human actions through the movement and collision of metallic spheres. Within a transparent cage, faint fog envelops the space as metal spheres are launched and fall onto a multi-material floor, creating sounds that echo briefly before fading—yet never entirely disappearing.

This lingering resonance represents the concept of the "trace" as described by Jacques Derrida: not simply something that exists or not, but a deferred and differential presence shaped by absence. In this way, the trace is not in the impact itself, but in the fading vibration and invisible ripple it leaves behind.

The fog functions as a visual metaphor for this concept, referencing the East Asian aesthetic of "empty space". It gently veils the motion of the spheres, emphasizing what remains rather than what disappears. The audience is invited to experience these subtle events and consider the unseen as an essential part of existence—understanding one’s own traces not as permanent marks, but as open-ended possibilities.