As we may soon be outnumbered by AI online, what will it mean to share a space with fabricated traces of human beings? Proof of Personhood embodies this phenomenon through disembodied shadows. They stretch over the Lee gallery as though their figures were blocking the one spotlight in the corner of the room, and stroll about in a silence punctuated only by their footsteps. While sharing a space with these long traces of people, living guests see their own shadows cut off at their feet.

Proof of Personhood was developed as a proof of concept for the Research and Development (RAD) space in Lee Gallery of Asian Art Museum.