Perfect Lovers (Untitled) by YAMU WANG

A homage to as well as a twist on Felix Gonzalez-Torres' powerful but elliptical work, Untitled (Perfect Lovers), where two identical clocks are set in sync and placed side by side, Perfect Lovers (Untitled) is an artist book that consists of 48 pairs of screenshots captured when the temperatures and the weather conditions are found the same between Beirut and Taipei on the Weather App—an attempt to connect two seemingly random cities (if not in the author’s autobiography) against the backdrop of a global pandemic.

While each pair of screenshots are placed on the same leaf, side by side, the leaves are folded and then sewn in the middle, leaving the screenshots of Taipei always on the left leaves and Beirut, on the right, except for on the center spread, where the two cities eventually meet.
Taking the book as an art medium, this work reflects upon the conditions of being perfect lovers and wonders, with a wish, if Beirut and Taipei can
be made into so?

2024, self-published
196 pages, 58 x 84 mm
risograph printed in gold and white
softcover, hand sewn
edition of 100