STATEMENT
I create transparent sculptural installations by exploring my visual language
to be able to communicate with people by transcending cultural knowledge. In
coming to this country, it became clear to me that my natural judgments and
perceptions were being challenged by being immersed in the English language
and culture. Experiencing this cultural uprooting and feelings of alienation
have led me to move deeply into exploring the essence of communication. I want
to create my visual language in order to communicate my emotional experience
by transcending cultural knowledge and language. My current experience living
in the U.S. has fueled this work; my desire to communicate and realizing the
ineptness of language at expressing certain levels of meaning, especially when
one is living in a foreign country.
I start each work by drawing my everyday life with hairs or taking pictures
of obsessions and habits, which have personal meaning. I collage and rearrange
them under the layers of transparent tape to save my past. Each work has meaningful
images which are records of my daily experience. I often use transparent tapes
to make the overlapping images blur my past memories which are becoming abstract
and opaque. With these elements of documentation, I create imaginary space,
which hold the emotion of moving between the past and the present. In addition,
people are able to decipher my unfamiliar visual language by seeing only partial
images from the installation.
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