REBOUND, 2023
A basketball wedged between an iron fence and a concrete wall - 24.3 x 30 x 250cm
The fence could provide protection and exert control over students, yet the sight of students within the fence aspiring to go beyond its confines is paradoxical, unstable, and immature, yet laden with powerful potential. In this project, societal systems are symbolized by a fence made of iron, and the students’ expressive desires find visualization in the studio through the installation of inflating material—a basketball.
Offensive Foul, 2023
A pair of shoes on the fence - metal, bamboo, and spray - 144 x 28 x 145cm
The fence is also human-made, for humans. I wanted to emphasize the mortality of the fence through exaggerated visualization..
“The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.” (Freire, 1968, p. 39)
I am here, and here I stay.
11 October 2023, I do fine art at chelsea college of arts
I am here, having paid 1.5 million won to go beyond here
There are a lot of students to speak and blow up their own thoughts
I'm thinking about the place I'm in now
Why is there many students who want to speak?
Someone tries to throw the ball over the fence with an excited heart or a calm heart.
No one knows whether someone's ball will go over the fence or get stuck. Just throw it.
Blow your wishes into the balloon and let it fly high over the fence.
We run while bouncing a ball filled with our dawn. We hear the cheers of people. This excites us even more.
We tried to go beyond the fence, by our own choice, we are still here. - Why do we have so much to say?
Despite having a critical view of this place, why are we still here?