Ahry Keem’s Paranoia: a space changed by feedback

How the work is made

The artist describes the work as documentation of a hardware-installation performance at Windmill, Seoul, in 2025. CCTV captures audience interventions and signals from the room, which enter an analog-digital video-feedback system.

As the space is re-recorded and the signals loop back, the recognizable room gradually turns into abstract movement and residual noise.

On screen

The excerpt is built from saturated layers of colour and restless patterns. Shapes persist or give way to other colours, and the point at which the place becomes unrecognizable is central to the work.

The artist

Gallery sangheeut’s biography says Keem worked in art direction for film and music videos before turning to the relationships between sound, image and a particular place.

That experience of building visual worlds carries into this work, which feeds a space back into an image-making apparatus.

Dates and durations

This roughly 33-second excerpt was uploaded on 4 October 2026. The artist lists the complete Paranoia (2026) as a colour-and-sound work lasting 11 minutes 30 seconds.

Windmill’s SPACE CINEMA performances took place on 27–28 June 2025, with screenings on 4–6 July 2025; both are past events. Music is credited to will du toit. The clip contains strong colour contrasts and rapidly changing imagery.