Stability - One who cannot live in the present
Media: Cement, ISO foam
Performance video / original running time: 1hour
Year: 2019
Through this creature, I wanted to talk about the conflict between the sense of stability and the desire of pursuing change and how it is hard to get out of the comfortable and stable status once we get used to it. The tail, which served as changing one’s direction and balancing, has degenerated and it is hard to tell where the head is and where the tail is.
Performance outside of the white cube
When I was thinking about this performance, the first places that came up to my mind were near companies or the bus station, full of people who know where to go and office workers in suits who have a stable job. Since most people here have their clear destinations and are always in a hurry, I imagined my struggle, slowness and disorientation would be seen more clearly in contrast with the busy crowds. And there was an exciting moment when people surround me tried to protect me when one woman tried to push me in the bus station.
Also, I like seeing my works with children. Children are pure, innocent and curious about everything. Before we became adults, we all used to be children. We once had big dreams no matter how unrealistic or ambitious they were, but as we grow up, we slowly forget those precious things. This contrast between children and adult which evokes a sense of pity and sadness in my work.