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 Stagnant Air Material: paper, iron threats size 3x 8 x 1,06 meter
In the Japanese language there is a word for the void between two objects 'Ma (間) The concept of "MA' is continuously re-defined and not merely understood as empty or negative space, but as a space that contains life. Being in the Artist in residence; Takeo in Japan a city that I imagine was more lively in the past, and especially the area where the Artist in residence studio is. I started to tape the studio window and wall. Add layers of time on the wall, sometimes taping only 15cm high in 8 hours. By doing this every day you can experience the rhythm of the street. Wrapping or taping something that is here, capturing a memory, leaving an imprint or even fossilizing the space. These are the traces that try to capture and by doing this action, influencing time and space and reimagining my relationship to 'MA'.
2022 Taping Time Material: paper size 3,8 x 3 meter.
2022 Taping Time Material: paper size 3,8 x 3 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.
The installation Iridescent Shades reflects the environment of the Zeeburger island of Amsterdam. The fast-changing area in concrete construction of new blocks for inhabitants. When you rub it there is a structure of an old wall behind it. The shiny perfect mirrored foil changes over time and everywhere you can experience the structure of the past structure of wall of Amsterdam and Seoul.
2020 Material: paper size 5 x 8 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 Flux Material: paper size 3 x 5 x 0,05 meter.
A site-specific installation where the material made the space to move between two and three
dimension. By weaving the videotapes you get a room that feels smooth and warm like oil and at the same time hard and cold as glass. The movement between these two extremes gives the viewer an alienated feeling.
2018 Soldify Material: Videotapes Size 3 x 5 x 2,3 meter.
dimension. By weaving the videotapes you get a room that feels smooth and warm like oil and at the same time hard and cold as glass. The movement between these two extremes gives the viewer an alienated feeling.
2018 Soldify Material: Videotapes Size 3 x 5 x 2,3 meter.
I made an site specific installation 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.
Sky in the Room, 2011 Mujigi fabric, stones 28 x15 meter
Sky in the Room, 2011 Mujigi fabric, stones 28 x15 meter
The pictures photos of their clothing, photographs and their drawings of the people who we spoke is a inspiration of the installation what we will make. I will make a frame of the pictures of the people who we spoke. The frame will be a traditional why of rapping cloth, the Bojagi. That will be a roof of the installation. In the middle of the installation will be a textile sculpture inspiration of the mountains of Korea. The sculpture hangs freely in space under the frame of the Bojagi and between two walls, On the walls are placed 2 mirrors. The visitors can stand in the object. If you are standing in the semi-transparent object you can see yourself through the mirrors. And creates an endlessly repeating pattern. This is for me a symbol of memory that are repeated in your head. And than transformed . If you scream something in the mountain it will be repeated in the mountain as a reverberation or echo.
2011 At Home in Patterns fabrics mirror, photos, installation in co-operation with Erika Blikman 600x300x300cm 2011
A knitted room in perspective of a child in which the susbtance particles is visible in the light
2005 Dusty room Material threat, wool, iron
2005 Dusty room Material threat, wool, iron