Scribble Body emerges from a continuous research about the body as an internal battle ground but also as our main contact with the external world. The sculpture is following a previous study where the sculpture (Emerge 2018) was showing a body like shape emerging from its own structure. The structure here was not just containing the body and restricting it but also was serving as a shield protecting it. Scribble Body is a following phase where the body has now emerged full into the external world. The sculpture is resembling the a scribble drawing as here the body is a metaphor not a anatomical representation. At its center sits a wooden heart, pre-burnt and carbonised. In a performance during the opening of the exhibition, the heart was removed and used to draw directly on paper, then returned to the sculpture once the performance ended.
Threading Pain was born from the idea of how pain grows inside us. As someone who lives with endometriosis, a chronic illness, my life is marked by a constant pain that is hard to explain, invisible from the outside and therefore difficult for others to grasp.
But pain is not tied to a single disease. I believe each of us carries a pain that is hard to explain, one that belongs only to us. Visible pain, or defined pain, is easily understood. Most pain, however, has no name and for this reason it is harder to overcome or heal.
Even unseen, internal pain keeps growing, touching every part of our lives; Infinite threads forming like a spider's web with no beginning and no end. For this reason, the threads of the installation continued to grow and change shape throughout the exhibition.
Within those black threads, though, there is hope. Suspended among them are pearl-like spheres of varying sizes, a direct reference to how oysters create pearls. When an irritant, like sand or debris, enters the oyster's shell, the oyster doesn't expel it; it wraps it, layer by layer, until the irritation becomes a pearl. Threading Pain draws on this same transformation: pain that cannot be removed can still be held, layered, and slowly turned into something else.
It is an exploration into the everyday’s rhythms of Korea through sound and visuals by transforming fleeting moments into lasting forms. The ambient sounds are translated into sculptural representations and the architectural patterns captured in Seoul, emphasize rhythmic repetition. This work invites viewers to see the transient as permanent, highlighting the interplay of sound, structure, and daily life.
The sculpture was made by using leftover jewellery materials like watch straps, beads, leather straps and recycled silver. The sculpture has also an element of movement when lifted. The assorted beads, placed at different distances, move from one side to the other making different types of rhythms and melodies.
We constantly search for our place in the world, though we often don't know what that truly means. Born in a specific place, we’re taught that’s where we belong, yet belonging is deeper than physical space. It’s a feeling shaped by people, cultures, and environments.
Living in different places and experiencing various cultures, I began to question where my space of belonging truly was.
My journey started on a train ride through shifting landscapes, where the boundaries between inside and outside blurred. The inner and outer spaces merged, prompting me to ask: Is belonging found externally, or is it something we must discover within ourselves?
Rhythm 0 represents the rhythm of pause, but also labor and the overcoming of binaries. The pause is not emptiness, but a moment of fullness, like a noisy silence, a necessary interval often overlooked in our lives.
For this artwork, I collected metal scraps and transformed them into new sculptures. Each piece is unique, embodying a collection of moments and pauses from both others and myself.
Emerge explores the physical body, its limits, and its connection to the outside. The body is both armor and a link to sensation, movement, feeling, and desire. Through sensation, the body provides understanding and connection to the external world. It becomes flow, a pulsing beat, an energy that cannot be contained, it spreads without limits, it emerges.
Harmonious Chaos explores the contradictions of the human mind and emotions. The work portrays the juxtaposition of ideals, harmony and chaos, balance and imbalance, something and nothing. It delves into how chaos, though detrimental, is also necessary and even beneficial to the creative process.