Untitledspaces

<Untitled spaces> is about easily overlooked spaces. These space are created when highways cross one another and become a fascinating new territory, one with no proper name or a generally recognized definition. These variable spaces have very limited information about them, therefore I abandon realistic representations of those spaces as I put my personal experience into diorama. In this work, I pay attention to possibility of this perceptually abandoned space where anything can happen.

Urbanlandscape

There is a space which has no name between intersecting roads. We encounter this space every day but we barely perceive it as a legit 'space'. This makes me think of it as space which makes everything happen. Based on what I witnessed, I deconstruct and reconstruct this space.

Unfoundartworks

<Unfound artworks> series is a case study for me to find a possibility to be ‘artwork’ in a random combination of objects that I found on the street. Regardless of their cultural meaning, I try to find and represent beauty in their figure itself.

Uncertainthings

In 'Uncertain things' series, I explore uncertainty that occurs in our ordinary life through the relation between everyday objects.

 In the start of <uncertain things> series, I make simple alterations to clear objects, like hardware, in order to make them undetermined. The fragments of everyday life that I find at hardware stores, their mechanism or contribution to life, do not work functionally themselves in relation to me, because I have no prior knowledge to their use. And this make me to enable to focus on objects’ formal quality(connection)as a material regardless of their contexts. By contaminating them with various materials, such as pipes, clamps and many small part of mundane objects, they are restored to an uncertain state that can be interpreted through their material relationships.

In the extended stage of this series, I collect things that resemble my anxiety and uncertainty I encounter everyday. These objects, like measuring tape, shitty toys which are related to outer space, ornaments and artificial plants for aquariums, mean my desire to control everything. They are free from unsettlement and give me comfort from the thing that I’m unlikely to break anything because it’s not real. 
As developing its 'uncertainty' from random combination to 3d scanning, I find the meaning of uncertainty and its ironic beauty. Through repetitive replay in my brain, like continual reflection and over thinking, the object that represents my anxiety gets abstract and distorted. And again, through breaking this smudged shape like a stain into pieces, my anxiety and unsettlement start over as a new form.

As objects enter to following phases like 2, 3 and 4, manipulated uncertainty of them got escalated increasingly. In phase 2, I focus on virtual space where a random combination of objects is happening. In this space, the sculptures can be held together with other sculptures and destructed partially without any limit. Images of objects are fragmented, overly packed, zoomed and cropped to escalate the uncertainty in phase 3. In phase 4, I employ 3d Scanning app to add unexpected distortion. Now in phase 5, the distorted fragments of uncertainty form into random pattern or mass. Like a snowball, the fragments are moving away from their original start as the volume of this mass gets bigger. In this process, I follow this process to seek the independent and pure beauty of its form and color.Particularly, in ‘Flow’ of phase 5, I try to visualize the rhythm when the pieces get tangled and shaped in a new form. By ‘not that loud’ rhythm of the form made of continual addition and repetition, I represent the 'calm but steady' expansion of the uncertainty. And their repetitive and seductive eye-catching expansion reminds me of 'Kaleidoscope'.
 

This installation is the result of a series of sequential installations I make of everyday objects and quotations which I collect as a way to work through anxiety caused by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I photograph and videotape each iteration and then add the documentation to the final installation which is a record of my anxiety and obessesion about making the “right” decision.

Video document inspired by a pinball machine is the part of installation and also final piece including whole narrative of my journey of anxiety and obsession. Like pinball’s movement, striking an idea and then it makes ball’s direction to be changed and strike another idea again, they explain how my brain works when I want to find a comfort zone in overthinking. I don’t finish thinking on purpose and just move to another thing with tiny relations or even nothing. Same as channel surfing on the couch, the ball bounces and hits ideas quickly to find comfort. In this process, my mind and emotional state fluctuate like harsh waves. But After reaching comfort zone, I start to enjoy this waves like a surfer.

Through this series of works, I visualize the things that happen in my brain and take this chance to complete its personal definition.

The series of <Mindscape: NY17-19>is a landscape, which is recomposed by my subjective view. Even if we see the same place, we perceive that differently depending on who we are or even what we have in our mind at that time. For this reason, drawing a landscape is the same as drawing our mindstate. In this work, I draw a landscape of New York with what she saw, felt and experienced there as making a collage with her own picture, found image, text and drawing on them.