water - touched video work 2020
If an artwork is a phenomenon that emerges through the filter of I, the artist, then what is “I”? A water-rich organism bounded by a warm, soft membrane which protects it from the outside world. Yet, there are many borders in this world that divide and separate people even more strongly than our own skin.
When you feel drawn into the blue of the vast sky that gently shimmers on the water surface, the concept of boundaries is unreliable like the barely discernible water surface, and my heart sways freely. The boundary itself, I think, may be mostly an illusion created from ambiguous definitions, subjective interpretations or prejudices ….
This work is a collection of slow-motion clips, from a number of Cyclades islands in summer 2020.
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have been isolated physically from each other and forced not to touch. We have been staying home most of the time alone and the world surrounding us has suddenly become very limited. After the first lockdown in Germany, I stood on the sand with my bare feet, and felt the gentle wave of sea water - it was an entirely new sensation of being ’touched’ that felt like it was the first time in my life due to the long period of physical distance. Reflecting the sunlight and blue sky, the movement of the vision of sand through moving water, together with the actual sense and feeling on my skin in the sea water, I let my joy and curiosity move together with the movement of water.
video projection at Gmünder Kunstverein 2021 immer wenn es dunkel wird… (the exhibition program during the Covid-19 lockdown in Germany.
three windows site-specific installation 2021 39 ROOMS 7 CURATORS 3 ARCHITECTS, BETRIEBSWERK, Heidelberg, Germany
One window opened to the outside world, the water of the sea wavering in the other ‘window’ projected on the wall, and the increasing number of footprints marked by visitors walked into this room in the black shadow-like ‘window’ on the floor is a record of time and at the same time corresponds to the moving water on the wall.