What Gathers A Vortex
mixed media installation, 2022
The artist’s room unfolds as an alchemical chamber—a living archive of stones, paintings, books, flowers, and personal remnants gathered across different places and times. Arranged through proximity, tension, and balance, these materials form a temporary ecosystem in which private memory opens onto a larger cosmos.
The vortex emerges through this gathering: a centre of attraction where matter, memory, and perception continually reorganise. Rather than resolving the room into a fixed narrative, the installation remains a living field—activated anew by the presence and perspective of each viewer.
Each object carries its own duration. Stones hold geological traces of pressure, water, wind, and time, while paintings and personal remnants preserve more intimate histories of movement and experience. Within the room, these distinct temporalities begin to act upon one another, transforming the familiar into an evolving constellation.
'R∞M', mixed media installation, 350 x 240 x 140 cm, 2022
'A village legend' (한 마을의 전설), mixed media, 81 x 43 x 45 cm, 2022
'Capricorn at 11 rooms climb high' (열한 개의 방에 위치한 염소자리는 높이 올라간다),
mixed media on canvas,160 x 131 cm, 2022
'lapiz lazulli', resin and acrylic paint on acrylic panel ,58 x 90 cm, 2020
'old friends', acrylic and ink of canvas, 91 x 91 cm, 2022
'waterfall', acrylic on canvas, 30 x 130 cm, 2019
'파동풍경', acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2022