CENTURION (2025)
Real-time Installation
Centurion (working title) is a real-time 3D installation featuring an animated figure dressed as a Roman centurion living inside a contemporary apartment. The figure carries out ordinary daily activities—sleeping, cooking, using a phone, exercising, listening to music, and resting.
Presented across multiple screens, each showing a different room, the work unfolds continuously over a 24-hour cycle. The figure moves between spaces in real time, creating a slow, durational experience with no fixed loop.
Using motion capture and game-engine technology, the work focuses on gentle, repetitive, and uneventful movement rather than spectacle or action. Occasionally, the figure breaks from routine in unexpected or absurd ways before returning to everyday gestures.
By placing a historical figure in a mundane present-day setting, Centurion reflects on digital avatars, time, and labour, and resists the speed, efficiency, and fantasy often associated with contemporary digital imagery.
Installation at National Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju South Korea.
Installation at National Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju South Korea.
Installation at National Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju South Korea.
Installation at National Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju South Korea.