CICA Museum, M Gallery
November 1 – 5, 2023
2023.11.01 – 05
I am trying to sing something useless..
“You are like a hurricaneThere’s calm in your eyeAnd I’m gettin’ blown awayTo somewhere safer where the feeling staysI want to love you but I’m getting blown awayBlown away”
— Neil Young
Relocating to the city hit me with all kinds of industrialized goods. In this continuous urban noise roaring and wandering everywhere in the daily fast-flowing vision, my time is fractured from the linear time of the external environment, as if left out by the torrent. In a city with a big goal, I became a person who was thrown out without orientation, and I and them (objects) seemed to be blocked from time, creating a kind of flexible conflict. At this point I became aware of myself and tried to sing useless poetry in an overly refined and symbolic everyday life.
Amid the quick pace of everyday life, I feel that quotidian landscapes are constructed by the often-disregarded movements and routines of mundane objects. Scrutinizing each object reveals a meaning beyond its superficial purpose: the possibilities of entanglements between nature and culture, the significance of each unexpected coincidence. With each moment of stillness amid a busy world, minute gestures bring me new meanings and experiences.
