The Vanishing Pope | interactive sound & video installation | hard sponge, aluminum, acrylic, light bulb, speaker, projector, self-made circuit board | 2021 | Image source, Cao Shu solo exhibition  Go To Rome, Imagokinetics

An installation based on light and sound. The voice of “Pope Innocent x” controls the brightness of a light bulb. The lamp gets brighter as the tone goes higher. When the Pope howls to the loudest moment, he will be transformed from the image  by Diego Velazquez into the image by Francis Bacon, and his projection will be covered up by the brightest bulb until disappearing. 

 教宗的消失 | 声音与影像交互装置 | 硬泡沫切割、铝、亚克力、灯泡、音箱、投影仪、自制电路板 | 图片来源，想象力学实验室 

这是一件通过声音音量来控制灯光强度变化的装置。作品中出现的人物形象是委拉斯贵支笔下的英诺森十世教宗，也是传教士卜弥格去往罗马的最终目的。艺术家在此突出光与光的紧张关系，灯光变强的同时投影的光便因光照而减弱，两者究其本质都是“光”，却呈现出相互对冲的状态。导致灯光变强的是投影中英诺森十世的呼喊，当声音到达最大的时候，他的形象也被灯光淹没…