Shape, 2017, natural timber, objects, 200x1500x400cm, Commission for the Sea Art Festival 2017
Shape Nakdong River estuary and the Sea of the
South Sea converge in Dadaepo, where many personal and collective events would
have taken place with countless people interacting with each other for a long
time in history. The water flowing through this place would have flowed from
the foothills of a mountain somewhere and passed through rivers. In such
currents, the water would have observed peoples¡¯ lives, or passed through
mysterious spaces of nature untouched by human. The countless stories, mysteries and things
hidden in the waters that flow into the sea might encroach upon us on the
seashore, in a form of a massive monster. The massive form, made of rotten tree
branches, and covered with ocean filth, seems to squirm in the desires for
something, or to speak to us. Perhaps what this monster wants is something that
we know all too well.
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