SeeSaw
Final Hot Desert
January 23 - February 28, 2026
Zaid Arshad
Shimabuku
TJ Shin
The exhibition, Seesaw, acts as a cross-section compartment providing space for the coming-togethers and splittings of practices which investigate these same transactions of material and the contextual positioning of use-value.
See-saw is a two-channel video displaying two responsive, oppositional timers that count down from a shared pool of time corresponding to the exhibition’s timeframe. A pseudo-random number generator alternately starts and stops each clock at unpredictable intervals ranging from one second to one minute. Gradually diverging and realigning over time, the two clocks appear to steal and gift time, continuously registering their differences through automated feedback, while waning across their shared duration through mutual destruction.
Operating along similar principles of bilateral randomness, TJ Shin's 8 Ball is a modified Magic 8 Ball, a novelty toy traditionally used for fortune-telling. A traditional Magic 8 Ball operates on probabilistic chance, containing affirmative (50%), neutral (25%), and negative (25%) answers on an icosahedral die. This reconstructed piece contains 20 "double conditional" answers such as "partially countered," "scarcely unlucky," and "somewhat null." These indeterminate results trace an action of giving up agency and having it returned.
See-Saw, 2026, two-channel video, duration: variable
8 Ball, 2026, cast resin, liquid suspension, icosahedral die, 4” diameter