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Curtain Installation  2000 - 2003

The Body and its Double  Velvet, wood, 510x375cm, Goldsmiths College MA Degree show, London, 2000


 
The Body and its Double                                                                                                             Dumb Double Reflections        A Curtain Between
       
A Curtain Between                     A wall                                                                       Labyrinthine Time
     
                                                                                                              
       
   

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A curtain has a powerful physical presence as a material structure, despite being merely thin fabric once folded. This series of installations dealt with the boundary between the material and the immaterial, manipulating space via the suspension of a temporary curtain. The intention was to create a theatrical and architectural space by hand-made, ruched fabric.

The Body and its Double
Velvet, wood, 510x375cm, Goldsmiths College MA Degree show, London, 2000
A mock stage was constructed in an empty space by installing a stage curtain in the middle of the room. The room has two entrances; a curtain divides the space in half. The viewer is invited to be part of the installation by entering the space. Depending on the point at which they enter, a function of spontaneous choice, she/he is either on stage or off stage.

Dumb Double Reflections
Velvet, wood, 120x520cm, Stepney City, London, 2000
A long, narrow curtain was installed in the middle of the exhibition venue, creating the impression of a closed curtain blocking off an area of space. This curtain conceptually divided the venue as ‘on’ and ‘off’ stage, inviting the viewer to participate in the interpretation of the installation.

A Curtain Between
Velvet, 520x170cm, British ambassador's residence. Seoul, 2001
A white velvet curtain was installed halfway between a living room and a corridor space of the ground floor of the British ambassador's residence in central Seoul. This curtain was hung on a found curtain rail, which had not been in use for a long time. 
The work aims to reveal the boundary between past/present, the foreign/the native, the known/the unknown, the domestic/the political and isolation/exposure.

A Curtain Between
Satin, 500x520cm, Asia-Pacific Art Festival, Taipei National University, 2003
A thin, satin curtain was installed between the lobby of the hall and opening reception space at Taipei National University. By adjusting the height of the curtain to a position lower than average adult’s human body, the intention was to oblige the majority of people to adapt their physical form in order to enter the reception place on the opening day of the festival.
 
A wall
Satin, 333x21.5x234cm, Moran Gallery, Seoul, 2002
The scale of a wall structure was measured in my own studio in Seoul. The structure appeared to be a gallery partition wall; it was, in fact, a reconstruction of the dimensions of construction that exists elsewhere.

Labyrinthine Time
Satin, approximately 520x440x290(H)cm, Marronnier(present Arco) Museum, Seoul, 2003
Each room-scale was measured from individual toilets in residential housing for artists living in New York, Tokyo, London, Seoul and Düsseldorf. Five rooms were connected to construct a pseudo-labyrinth that the viewer could walk through. The final form became a large monumental shape constructed  out of ruched fabric and threads.



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