Voyo Woo’s recent interdisciplinary project—a photography series featuring “iPad facemasks”—merges performance art, technology, and photography. In this body of work, professional dancers wear recycled iPad masks displaying images either captured from the natural environment where the photos are taken or generated using AI software.
The images on the iPad masks often portray subjects or objects that feel displaced or starkly incompatible with their surroundings. In the piece Only Fish Knows, for instance, the model wears a mermaid tail crafted from recycled grocery freezer bags and beer bottle caps, submerging symbolic “plastic waste” into the water. Meanwhile, the fish—an aquatic creature—appears trapped inside an electronic device fundamentally incompatible with water. These visual juxtapositions evoke a sense of dilemma and unease.
Through this interplay of the organic and the artificial, Woo explores themes of interconnectedness, personal narrative, and our shifting relationship with technology, nature, and the universe.