Things, 2024-25
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Found objects, plywood, glass
Dimensions variable
Installation at Park Soo Keun Museum, Gangwon
How do the objects and spaces in daily lives come to exist in actual and concrete forms? With which methods are spaces reflected upon, how do objects become corporeal, and which relationships do they create by transcending the composition of space in the dimension of materiality? How can the structure of a surface be transformed and extended? “With respect to instance-X, it must be stated that it never exists where we look for it, and conversely, it cannot be found where it is. In the words of Lacan, it does not have its own space.”[i] In this invisible system—a space defined by the absence of objects, or the “void”—the very objects it lacks generate meaning and establish order as they move within a structure formed among heterogeneous entities. At the same time, they set this structure in motion, giving rise to new formations. Rather than merely seeking sameness or similarities among heterogeneous and tense objects and spaces that have broken away from familiar contexts and relationships, the focus shifts toward an invisible and newly structured order—a mode of thought that reinterprets and reconstructs sameness. This exploration of spatial relationships—between objects and spaces, selves and others, and subjects and objects—can be embodied through the logic of the void. This logic takes shape in the spatial arrangement and gaze of inhabited spaces, the power dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, and the continuous technical transformation of creation, displacement, and redistribution.
