Daniel Su Daniel Su

BurnPics

BurnPics engages processes of destruction and reconstruction through a materially driven, time-based practice. Carefully produced photographic prints are subjected to burning and are filmed. The recorded footage is then reversed and slowed down, producing the visual effect of an image reconstituting itself—from dispersed ash to a fully restored photograph.

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Daniel Su Daniel Su

Returning the Gaze

Returning the Gaze presents uninterrupted, slow-motion shots of crowds gathered along the margins of parades.

Although the parade is what originally drew the crowd together, it remains just outside the frame. As individuals become aware of the camera’s gaze, they shift their attention away from the parade and toward the lens. Some meet it directly, their stares steady and unguarded; others glance quickly, uncertain or playful. This subtle turning transforms the work into an exchange: the spectators themselves become spectacle, returning the gaze, folding the act of looking back onto the camera and the viewer.

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Daniel Su Daniel Su

Processionals

Processionals is a series of video works produced in the context of public demonstrations and collective gatherings—Pride marches, political protests, vegan activism, and related forms of civic assembly. Filmed from within the flow of the marches themselves, the works foreground the density, heterogeneity, and affective charge of bodies moving together through urban space.

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