Thoughts on Living Matter
2015
Installation
‘Thoughts on Living Matter’ exhibition was held together in two different spaces. The sound pieces and objects were displayed in the A402 gallery inside the building, and the vinyl-structured installation ‘Breathing’ was installed in the outer open space of Mark S. Taper Courtyard.
The installation in A402 includes eight sculptures that resemble the body, three inner bodily sounds installed inside individual sculptures, and organically shaped mirror mylar floor. These eight sculptures suggest different characteristics of body: hair (material), torso (shape), tension between muscle and skin (different elements that holds the body), relationship between bone and fluid (structure), skin (texture), gut (what forms inside of the body), hole (penetrable), and mass (penetrating). These objects are placed on top of mirror mylar floor that is cut into a similar shape as the mirror floor that will be inside the inflatable sculpture. The reflections of these object will be made by the mirror floor: the reflection is either a duplicate of a bodily object or a continuum of the bodily object. Viewers are allowed to walk on the mirror flooring: a realization of their own body within space. Three different inner body noises are inserted in three different sculptures. The sounds include edited recordings of the heartbeat, bowel movement, and esophagus movement from my body.
The second part of the show is an inflatable sculpture which is installed outside of school building. 'Breathing' runs hourly turning on for an hour and off for an hour. The outside installation is comprised of laminated plastic sheets, mirror base, and air. It’s an expansion of the bodies or segments of a body in the gallery space: exterior of body, skin of body, body as a bag, and the layer of a body.
Breathing
2015
Plastic, bricks, automatic timer, air injector, mirror sheet
Breathing
2015
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