Things, 2024-25
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Found objects, plywood, glass
Dimensions variable
Installation at Park Soo Keun Museum, Gangwon
Things (2024), as reinterpreted in this exhibition, presents the landscapes of objects on transparently complicated layers with inherent spatial volatility that would extinguish the objects and make them disappear in no time by breaking away from being spatial. One object is expanded to several different objects connected in different ways, and these objects change their spatial arrangements or locations in a new space. Instead of settling into fixed forms, these perceived objects undergo structural transformations, intertwining and unfolding into new materialities and surfaces.
The forms of objects and spaces that externally seem to be heterogeneous and have no crossing points may also be understood to be the same continuous form in a topological structure. The diverse objects collected—which are used as objects of the artwork—break away from the conventional relationships and imply an internally undetermined state of tension. Through a process of identifying, disbanding, rearranging, and rendering disjunct the intrinsic characteristics of the objects, the artist creates the logic of a void to build without building, draw without drawing, and break away from the compositional arrangement. Transformed into an operating state, the incorporeal system produces specific spatial form and logic, finds reciprocity between heterogeneous individuals, and discovers yet another spatial indicator.
