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Installation view of The Way to Understand an Apple – Coldest Mode by Linhan Yu, from the duo show The Untranslated, curated by Yeni Ma. Linhan Yu The Way to Understand an Apple – Coldest Mode, 2025 Acrylic on canvas, wallpaper 120 x 120 cm (each) In The Way to Understand an Apple – Coldest Mode, the apple Linhan Yu depicts is not the apple we know. Captured through thermal imaging, it is perceived not by light but by heat—revealing not its appearance or color, but its internal structure, its external conditions, the traces of time inscribed upon it. The artist does not reproduce this captured image directly. Instead, he paints over it, redrawing its form with rough, deliberate brushstrokes. In this process, what the machine’s eye seized in its coldest mode is returned by the artist’s hand to something unstable and mutable. Through this, Yu asks how deeply our vision is shaped by the conditions through which it operates. If Cézanne unsettled the illusion of a single viewpoint by looking at one apple from multiple perspectives simultaneously, Yu poses the same question through technological mediation, in the language of today. The same logic extends to his practice of assembling multiple canvases into a single image without fixing their arrangement. The meaning of a subject does not reside in any completed form; it is generated within relationships and regenerated each time those relationships shift. Text by Yeni Ma.

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