Post-Hyperreal Landscape Ⅲ

Post-Hyperreal Landscape explores the unstable relation between simulation and reality through the coexistence of multiple temporalities. Rather than forming a unified narrative, these temporal structures appear as distinct layers of reality. The work combines three types of images: an artificial life simulation that never repeats a single frame, performative re-mediations in which the simulation appears only as optical traces entangled with the physical world, and documentary footage from a devastating rain disaster in Japan. These elements do not converge into a single “hyperreal” image. Instead, each maintains its own autonomy as a separate reality. By juxtaposing these layers, the work challenges the notion of a singular, authentic record. The idea of a “true” document is treated as a fiction; every record operates within its own constructed reality. Sound, composed from uncanny noise, resists synchronization or hierarchy. It continuously renegotiates its relationship with the images, existing as an equal and unstable layer. Ultimately, simulation, documentation, and sound are not categories to be resolved, but materials. They are mobilized to articulate a different kind of reality—one grounded not in truth, but in the expressive force of strangeness emerging between images and sound.