Let the World Pass is a video sculpture that plays with perceptions of distance and reality. Originally conceived as a five-meter-high LED wall for St. Andrä Church in Salzburg, the work was adapted for the evn collection into a square format, interrupted at its center by an opening of the same shape.

The screen presents a first-person perspective moving relentlessly forward, much like in an open-world video game, at times gliding slowly, at others sprinting ahead. Yet the environment remains entirely unstable: landscapes, buildings, and weather conditions continuously melt into one another. The video was created using an early version of OpenAI’s Sora. Since this AI model has already been retired, its glitch-ridden visual language is effectively frozen in time, becoming a time capsule of the moment when text-to-video technology first emerged.

The title suggests a sense of letting things happen and surrendering to the flow: the passive observation of this newly created digital world, as well as a yielding to the rapid pace of AI development. From a distance, the constant forward motion exerts a magnetic pull. As one moves closer, however, the realistic image dissolves into an abstract grid of LED pixels. At the very center of this disintegrating world lies the opening, allowing the eyes to shift their focus, look through the screen, and reconnect with the physical space beyond it.