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In Between Presence and Absence
* Solo Exhibition at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2009/ Paperscapes an Exhibition at Philadelphia Art Alliance, 2017
Ongoing, Paper-casting using recycled fiber from discarded paper, fabric, and spotlight
This project started from my question: “Our relationship to the materiality of culture”. 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. (Photos by Yongho Bae, Sarah Lorenz)