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Curtain Pillar  2002 - 2005

Pillars 
Satin, The diameter of a pillar is measured from 13 existing museums and galleries in Seoul,
reproduced at the Loop gallery with a draped and ruched curtain. All 230cm height/ Loop Gallery, Seoul, 2002


 
Pillars (2002)                                                                              Two Pillars (2002)                                 
                                                                                                                                              
Collectivization of Pillars (2002)                                                Mimicking Pillar (2004)                                                              Five Colors Five Pillars (2005)
       
                                                                                                                                                                                
                                             
         

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This series Curtain Pillar shows my continuing concern with the perceptual shift between the visible and the invisible, the material and the immaterial, a shift that is stimulated by an art object. By reproducing a pillar, based on the real scale of an existing pillar and an actual space, the work metonymically references masculinity, capital and power within a spatial context.

Pillars 
Satin, The diameter of a pillar is measured from 13 existing museums and galleries in Seoul, reproduced at the Loop gallery with a draped and ruched curtain. All 230cm height/ Loop Gallery, Seoul, 2002

Two pillars
Transparent chiffon, Each 177x177x560cm, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, 2002
Two giant pillars were erected using see-through chiffon. On one pillar the ruched drapes are concave and on the other they are convex. The shape and scale was decided by an architectural interior structure in the Taipei Fine Art Museum; seen from a distance the pillars looked almost as real as the actual ones in the original space.

Collectivization of Pillars
Transparent fabric, wood, Diameter of the pillar: 1. Finance Building (Gwang Hwa Mun, Seoul)-115x120cm  2. Coex Mall (Samsung-dong, Seoul)-94x89cm  3. Mega Box Cinema (Samsung-dong, Seoul)-145cm  4. Basement shopping mall at the National Tax Service Building (Jong-no, Seoul)-125cm, 5. Assem Tower (Samsung-dong, Seoul)-67cm, 6. Lotte Department Store (Myung-dong, Seoul)-40cm / Height: all adjustable to the gallery space.  /4F, Show Space for Salvatore Ferragamo Fashion Store, Chungdam-dong, Seoul, 2002

Mimicking Pillar
Transparent fabric, 13m height, 120cm diameter, Hyundai Department Store,  Samsung dong, Seoul, 2004

Five Colors Five Pillars
Satin/ Each: 3m height, 110cm diameter, Sung-Nam Art Center, Gyeonggido, Korea, 2005
This installation wrapped real pillars. Ten pillars on the ground of the first floor of the lobby at Sung-Nam Art Centre were wrapped with a curtain using five colours; the impression was of five pillars penetrating the architectural structure.



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