I create work that transforms these collected and collective memories into sites of matresence and embodied care.
My work centers the AANHPI femme experience, reclaiming Korea’s entangled history of occupation and war while reimagining a heritage we carry in the diaspora. Lisa Lowe in Immigrant Acts wrote “the making of Asian American culture…[includes] practices that are partly inherited and partly modified, as well as partly invented.”
In my studio, I utilize organic and ephemeral materials like florals and fruits to re-envision these motions into sculptural forms and durational performances, each a living monument to resilience and counter memories existing in public.
My approach to art-making is informed in the methodology of grassroots organizing— what can centering kinship building in community engaged art look like modeled on trust and reciprocity—art that resists the transactional.
Work statement
what is something you always wished I had asked and knew about you? is a floral sculpture and photograph series that confronts how we hold and carry memory in the diaspora through cocoji — a fading practice of floral arranging in Korea.
The figures in the series include the last remaining photographic archives of my family originally from the Gwangju region of Korea. A region known for the student-led demonstrations in their fight for democracy against the coup of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980.
The family photographs were taken by my mother and gifted to me by my father after 18 years of estrangement.
In my studio, I utilize organic and ephemeral materials like florals and fruits to re-envision these motions into sculptural forms and durational performances, each a living monument to resilience and counter memories existing in public.
My approach to art-making is informed in the methodology of grassroots organizing— what can centering kinship building in community engaged art look like modeled on trust and reciprocity—art that resists the transactional.
Work statement
what is something you always wished I had asked and knew about you? is a floral sculpture and photograph series that confronts how we hold and carry memory in the diaspora through cocoji — a fading practice of floral arranging in Korea.
The figures in the series include the last remaining photographic archives of my family originally from the Gwangju region of Korea. A region known for the student-led demonstrations in their fight for democracy against the coup of Chun Doo-hwan in 1980.
The family photographs were taken by my mother and gifted to me by my father after 18 years of estrangement.