Video projection installation
2019
It’s here! But I don’t have it anymore.
This work is a video projection of the poem. With transparent cards, we can see the overlapped reflection of images and words on the surface of the poem. The poem is about forgotten and lost things and the words are scattered as time goes by.
Audiences are expected to bring cards. By doing so, we can read the poem more clearly without the shades of the cards. At the same time, we face missing words in the poem. Also, when audiences try to take a photo of the work, it shows a different range of colours due to the distortion of cameras.
What do those missing parts mean? Is that the deficiency of context and density? Or is that the permission of imagination and possibility? This work aims to trigger a conversation about possession and, materiality and immateriality witnessed in the capitalistic digital era.
What does it mean to possess an object? What happens when a physical object is replaced with an image? If the object contains a certain memory of our life, can memory be transferred to a photo of it?
We inevitably own an object although we do not buy it and again, inevitably throw them away even though we do not want to do so. We try to remember them by having pictures. Now, they are in our smartphones, in our internet cloud and on our Instagram. It happens because we want to be tidier, we do not need it anymore, we cannot have a cabinet to keep them, or it is because we move constantly and never get a chance to find a stable foundation.
