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The series In Future Perceptions from Yuran Yakon is about existence through visuality, about the screen as a hyper visual machine in which past, present and future accumulate. There are two transparent layers, a rear layer creating noise through glitch and a front layer with text, dates and references to paintings with the theme of the Picnic in the Park, like Manet famously painted in 1863. The tension between these layers is the tension we experience in our will to bring sense, structure and orientation in our visual field.

The five GIFs are based on paintings by artists like Tizian, Édouard Manet, James Tissot, Pablo Picasso and Liu Xiaodong, all based on the theme of the picnic in the park. These paintings represent a constructed reality of humans surrounded by nature. In the five GIFs, these realities remain just as a vague citation, but the vision, the image of humans in a natural environment, becomes something unstable and difficult to visualize on the screen. There are three different references to time in every work, one on top of a short, fragmented text collage in the GIF pointing towards the future, one in the title of each piece referring to the year in which the artists made their paintings, and the present as visual reality experienced through the digital noise of the glitch.

The two layers, a rear layer creating noise through glitch and a front layer with text, dates, and references to paintings, are both transparent to blur with the digital environment in which it is shown. Through that, it appears as if you’re watching through glass or transparent plastic, which relates to the present moment of watching on a screen. Furthermore, it becomes harder, more in light mode than in dark mode, to establish an image in the mind of what is seen.