(Inter)Faces of Predictions (9783959059756)

(Inter)Faces of Predictions

Sheung Yiu

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Spector Books

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Thread-bound softcover
640 pages
120 x 166 mm
ISBN 9783959059756
English, German, Traditional Chinese
Feb 2026

In his project Inter(Faces) of Predictions, which received the C/O Talent Award, Sheung Yiu examines how faces are used across different cultural and technological contexts to attribute character traits and to predict the future. The project brings together traditional East Asian practices of facial analysis with Western physiognomy and contemporary facial-recognition technologies. By analysing his own face, Yiu demonstrates how both historical belief systems and modern algorithmic procedures reproduce similar biases and stereotypical assumptions. The project invites critical reflection on how we interpret faces and the assumptions underlying these interpretations. By connecting historical and contemporary discourses, archival material and his own photographic work, as well as technological methods and artistic practice, Yiu builds a bridge between past and present, art and science.

Megan Williams, born in 1995, works as a writer, editor, and researcher in London. Sheung Yiu, born in Hong Kong in 1991, lives and works in Helsinki as a visual artist and researcher.

 

Editor: Veronika Epple
Designer: Marc Naroska, Max Schürmann
Text: Williams Megan
Artist: Yiu Sheung
Co-publisher: C/O Berlin Foundation

Publisher

Spector Books

Information

Thread-bound softcover
640 pages
120 x 166 mm
ISBN 9783959059756
English, German, Traditional Chinese
Feb 2026