Site-specific installation Stagnant Air in the corridor of the gallery space. The narrow space gives me the feeling of oppression. The calm beautiful suffocation that you can’t have a dialog of the topics that are in the air but been seen as to complex or not there in the Dutch society.
2023 Material: paper size 3x 8 x 1,06 meter.
Have to stay at 'home' during the period of the pandemic gave me time to reflect on the area that I have lived in for 14 years, and how I am recognized in the Netherlands. As an adoptee I come to realize that I will always be positioned between two cultures; Korean and Dutch. There is always a sense of not belonging to a specific place or culture. When you are standing in the sexroom (peeskamer), you are objectified. You are behind glass in your own place and being placed was an intensified experience. This is reflecting my experience of being a non-white citizen the Netherlands, sexualised as asian woman. I have lived here my whole life but I am slightly different this country made me always question where I am.
2022 Red Light Blue Material: paper size 0,8 x 3 x 3 meter.
Bleeding Stone was commissioned by ICK Amsterdam dance company. My inspiration comes from the work of the two directors of ICK, Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten: from the way they use friction between hard and soft, the sense of movement, breath and color. After ICKFEST of two days, the installation, which took me more than 600 hours. To create, will be dismantled and disposed of within minutes. Just as with a dance performance it is only to be experienced in the moment, after which only the memory of it remains.
2018 Material: paper size 3 x 3 x 3 meter.
The site-specific installation Flux moving between two- and three-dimension create an interaction between the environment, the material and myself. During the exhibition period the flowers grow by adding elements and they are sprayed with water so that the flat tissue paper flowers bloom. The colors change, fade and eventually merge into each other The title Flux reference to the growth and movement of the installation at the end of the exhibition period, the work is completely finished.
2018 Material: paper size 3 x 5 x 0,05 meter.
A site-specific installation Soldify
2017 Material: Videotapes Size 3 x 5 x 2,3 meter.
I made an site specific installation Sky in the Room that was related to the neighborhood Doksan-dong Seoul incorporating the traditional petticoat fabric ‘Mujigi’ During my stay, every morning I placed a set number of cubes on the rooftop of the residency building. In every white Mujigi cube I put a piece of rubble from the demolished buildings of the neighborhood. The Mujigi cubes were an abstract way of wrapping the pieces of rubble, referencing ‘Bojaki’ techniques. The ‘old city’ was wrapped as a gift on the rooftop. Over the months, a new ‘mini city’ emerged on the rooftop where the visitors could walk around and interact with the installation. At the end of the project, the center of the rooftop remained empty just like a ‘Hanok’ traditional Korean house.
2011 Material: Petticoat fabric, stones threads Size 28 x 15 x 0,02 meter.
A dairy of the residence of the area Doksan-dong. With their cooperation they show us what at home is for them. The installation At home in patterns was the reflection of their memories.
2011 Material: paper size 28 x 15 meter.
For this exhibition space I created site specific installation Fluxure a moving between two- and three-dimension Inside the building you see a silhouette of a movement. This is made from a large birthday garland . Outside through the five windows you see five shapes which echo the same movement. Like a scale the garland and the five forms keeps each other in balance.
2010 Material: paper, fiberfill, neon light, movie-stills Size 5 x 8 x 3 meter.