2018
Typology of absence
@ Recology Artist-In-Residence 2018 Exhibition
Seattle, WA, 2018
Typology of Absence – 2018 Recology Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Seattle, WA
They’ve been gutted of their meaning. They exist for the other.
Their bodies were for others, and their skin made to endure.
We don’t know what they once held or held onto. All that remains is a trace of a foregone presence, an empty space filled with the weight of absence.
There, in that in-between space, through the cracks, a potential for selfhood emerges, negotiating remnant objecthood with pronounced subjectivity.
They are artifacts, reminders for renewal, forever archiving dusts of the present.
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang and Philippe Hyojung Kim
Gravity Jokes
@ Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2018
Gravity Jokes at Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA – Sept. 8 – Nov. 17, 2018
curated by Molly Mac.
This recent body of work was produced during my residency at Recology Cleanscapes, Seattle, WA. What is made visible here is a trace of Seattle’s “progress”, siting the seemingly perpetual cycle of modern manifest destiny, where the real cost of hyper-consumerist excess is infused in the smell of Puget Sound’s summer heat.
“Scavenged and salvaged from mounds of trash and recyclables, materials used in these works range from a muddy spectrum of green, gray and taupe paints leftover from various institutional facilities, and other industrial materials including Styrofoam, plastic sheeting, household refuse and discarded safety gear.
In skin(scapes): 8-15, 8 thin, latex-enamel paint “peels” appear to slink slowly off their rectangular fasteners, apparently failing to live up to their own, seemingly self-imposed, grids. These works flutter delicately as viewers walk by. In these skin(scapes), gravity is a kind of grammar, and this grammar is torn between service to a language of figurative representation and service to languages of modern/postmodern abstraction. The joke could go either way, or perhaps somewhere else entirely.”
Photo Credit: Philippe Hyojung Kim
