Megan Williams, Sheung Yiu, (Inter)Faces of Predictions

(Inter)Faces of Predictions

Megan Williams, Sheung Yiu

Publisher
Spector Books
Year
2026
ISBN
978-3-95905-975-6
Specifications
Thread-bound softcover
12 x 16 cm
640 pages
Numerous black-and-white and colour illustrations
Text by Williams Megan
Design by Marc Naroska, Max Schürmann
Edited by Veronika Epple
Text in English, Chinese, German

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.

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