2021 UAH Contemporary Art Fellow Exhibition: In Between Presence and Absence
2021, Paper-casting using recycled fiber from discarded paper, blackout curtains, boards
* Solo exhibition of UAH Contemporary Art Fellow funded by National Endowment for the Arts, Wilson Hall Gallery at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL
I paper cast, using pulp made from discarded paper, everyday vessels that I found around me to visualize the emptiness in our daily life. By casting each physical object with nothing within, I articulated the essential concept of the container which is the space inside it. I filled up the empty space of the gallery with those empty white vessels and, in so doing, visualized what is non-visual, filling up an empty space with emptiness, articulating a non-describable concept, the inseparability of presence and absence, and the tension between them.
In this new space of In Between Presence and Absence, I attempt to visualize the weight of the absence which is unsubstantial to challenge the audiences’ expectation and visual perception, and to let them be part of the space which exists as an experiential metaphor passing between opposites.
Photographs by Sun Young Kang and José Betancourt
