Fotograf Zone – Sheung Yiu

Between Two Trees, There Are Many Worlds

Video, artist’s book

In his video essay and artist’s book, Sheung Yiu explores how ecological change can be perceived on multiple scales, both human and planetary. He begins in the forests outside Helsinki, where a bark beetle infestation transforms the ecosystem. Two trees, one alive, one infested, become the starting point for investigating remote sensing of nature and posthuman forms of vision. Hyperspectral image data and laser scans reveal layers of the forest invisible to the human eye, yet even these fail to capture the chemical communication between beetle and tree. Yiu thus highlights the limits of a technocentric perspective and reminds us that other beings, such as the tick, live within their own sensory universes. The video blends poetic imagery with data visualizations, exposing the tension between scientific measurement and sensory experience. Between Two Trees, There Are Many Worlds calls us to recognize that we live between two ecosystems—biological and technological—and bear responsibility for their interconnection.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, FUTURES is a platform to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of it's selected artists and to bridge the gap between emerging and established artists.

TIES THAT BIND
October 4–12, 2025
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Venue · Holešovice Market, H11A / the Glass Hall (Skleněnka)
Bubenské nábř. 306, 170 00, Prague 7 Holešovice
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Opening Hours · 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

Sheung Yiu

is a Hong Kong–born artist and researcher based in Helsinki. His practice explores seeing and sense-making through algorithmic image systems, examining how computer vision, computer graphics, and remote sensing transform ways of seeing and knowledge-making. Adopting cross-disciplinary collaboration as a method, he investigates the poetics and politics of posthuman vision and digital culture. His works take the form of photographs, videos, installations, and artist books.

#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.