Last Storage, 2022

Medium: Silver gelatin print on aluminum sheet of abandon phone

Dimension: Photo-sculpture

Size: 13.81cm x 6.7cm x 0.5cm

A discarded phone was found by the River Thames, as a forgotten human data storage chip, it also reveals another side of capitalist activities in human society. From the storage and transfer of data to its diffusion into decline, as well as the waste caused by the replacement of electronic product materials throughout their production to consumption cycle, its ultimate value as a scrap – becoming a witness. However, it used to be a carrier for millions of electronic data, and now the only space that can be stored is the aluminum plate under its shell. The only thing that can be recorded is the moment it was discovered. I used darkroom techniques to expose an image of a brick sitting next to it by the moment that I found it in the water onto the aluminum plate inside the phone.