Wednesday, September 12, 2007

about

I use pig’s body languages to capture the moment when its vulnerable or visceral state is
depicted. I place it in specific situations to evoke a certain emotion and allure the spectators to
empathize with their plight. This process is very direct and narrative like a fairy tale. I ask the spectators to strip off their civilized rationality to get closer to their original, yet lost emotional innocence.
I visualize the mechanism of forces that oppress me, such as all kinds of customs, power, and
pressures from our society through the geometric architectures or ready-made found objects. The contrast in scale between the structures and an animal character is an important element in my artworks. This contrast enhances the emotional effect for the animal characters. Through the situation and interaction between an abstract structure and animal characters, I reveal the latent desire, absurd order, or emotional struggles in mundane life.

The title of this piece is "Who am we?"Guess who I am out of the three pigs? I raise a fundamental question about who we are and how we define ourselves through the edge of sexual issues: masochism, sadism, and voyeurism.

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