top of page

The Chronicle between You and Me

너와 나의 연대기 

   Among the books collected so far, classical literature novels took the largest part among the books discarded from the library, mainly due to their physical deterioration. In this respect, the question of whether the similar narrative structures that make up our memories were influenced by classical novels we had encountered in childhood led to the work Melting Strata, 2020. In 2021, even in the same memory structure, how come ‘You and I’ crossed each other and just passed by, I have expressed the idea regarding another question; How come 'You and I' crossed over each other and just passed by, even in the same memory structure?' as an installation work in which words including gaps between them flow in the noise by using a timing belt from automobile parts.

   Previously, clues from literary records whose authors no longer existed in the same time and space as me became the very beginning of my works. Then, through the citizen participation project planned and conducted during 2020-2021, I had an opportunity to work using the emotional records of 200 citizens as sketches. From this work, I came to feel, perhaps natural truth, that our lives are shining in time like a short story novel and that all those records make up a confession enabling people to endure time. This made the way of working change from ‘collection’ to ‘reply,’ and it ended up mapping out works on our chronology by sharing between 'I and You.'

   And in recent years, where physical face-to-face encountering has become uneasy, choosing letters as the means of translating people's present moment into sculptures, the work The Chronicle between You and Me, 2021 about living and disappearing in the passage of time has been under progress.

 

Copyright © 2024 Wonjin Kim all rights reserved.

​

​

bottom of page