Artist Statement:

“Where I live is where the energies of chaos and desire overheat. After the armistice of the Korean War in 1953, Korea was a place where geographical and ideological division between the two Koreas, severance from the continent, black-and-white logic, conflict with the digital generation, change in sexual values, capitalist competition, and myths of success and failure swirled. . I was born in 1966 in a small village in North Jeolla Province.

I grew up with a father who went through war, and I've been a woman, a mother, a teacher, and a university lecturer. In the process, as a social individual, I experienced with my whole body that “it takes a lot of sacrifice and energy to create a social system that absorbs democratic diversity.” It was a series of small wars. In my fifties, I fully experienced historical and social factors, and based on that, I was able to start producing works.

My art is created by cells that cheerfully accept a complicated life. It becomes a scene revealed in transparent water droplets that briefly form on the spider's web. Life is always in a precarious droplet. If you look long and deep, the subtle and complex can be enigmatic. If you look closely, it's just a small collapsing circle. The world inside the circle is both unbearably heavy and light. I will collect the time and space reflected at the moment water drops fall and stitch them tightly together. The tiny cells of metal that contain light and space are like a spider's web. The stitching begins on top of the cobweb. Material reality and narrative reality are fiercely entangled in one space over a long period of time. The act of sewing with metal thread makes it possible. In the midst of chaos where three-dimensional and two-dimensional, space and color are intertwined, material and visual desires try to organize the scene by arguing for superiority and inferiority.

My sculptural scenes are fragments of memories and illusions formed at the point where time and space intersect. Architectural layers based on a transparent metal mesh are stitched together to become a three-dimensional world in itself. Past, present, and future, consciousness and unconsciousness, life and death, and pieces from a small world to a large world are connected across planes and dimensions and become a visual organism. I realized that only bold and creative destruction that surpasses me can overcome the limitations of material and image expression and open up a new world. At the same time, the creature must have the courage not to be content with itself and to constantly destroy for the sake of the new creation.”