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People Around us
주변인
In-gyeong Choi
2024.09.27 - 2024.10.24
Gallery SIL[室]
In-gyeong Choi
Time fades and deteriorates existence, and in reality, humans cannot win in competition with time.
The cause of the nostalgia and loss that humans possess is absolute time.
The artist In-gyeong Choi explores this sense of loss and the concept of time, visualizing it through knitting.
She reconstructs the fading of past existence and memories into physical form, aiming to rediscover and document what has been lost in the flow of time. In-gyeong Choi begins with the 'past' from her own inner world and extends it to her roots, her closest others—her family, and those around her.
Through this, she explores the relationship between the past, present, and the act of recording for herself and those close to her, offering the audience an opportunity to reflect on how the passage of time affects our very existence.
The exhibition People Around Us by artist In-gyeong Choi captures the sense of loss humans experience in the face of the relentless passage of time, and the resistance to it, through the medium of knitting and yarn.
Humans feel a sense of loss as they experience the slow disappearance of existence and memory within the flow of time. As an act of resistance against this, the artist records and preserves things from the past, bringing them into the present. Using knitting as a medium, she reconstructs memories and existence faded by time into physical form, rediscovering what was lost and making it exist anew in the present.
The exhibition People Around Us represents an intermediate stage in the artist's exploration, as the focus expands from the inner world to the external world. Family, as the closest beings and yet also others, forms the first stage of this outward expansion. The artist sees family as both their roots and a connection to the past, while also portraying them as thorough strangers and human existence within the absolute flow of time.
People Around us
주변인
Small stitches, reminiscent of a continuous life experienced by one person, come together to form a large shape, completing the artwork. The slow process of knitting acts as a medium that allows for understanding and accepting others' lives and emotions, transforming anxiety and loss into sharing and gratitude.
Through the work of connecting the past and present, the artist demonstrates the process by which an exploration that begins from the individual's inner world expands into a relationship with the external world. The artwork presents how the lost aspects within the flow of time are reconstructed and come to exist in the present. The artist’s work offers an opportunity to reflect on the meanings of time, loss, recording, and preservation, while sharing a journey of transforming feelings of loss and anxiety into sharing and gratitude.
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