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Installation view: Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
Installation view: Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
Sun Young Kang
Line Drawing III: Impossibly Connected, 2023
Nylon thread, photograph, wood panel
12 x 22 x 12 in
30.5 x 55.9 x 30.5 cm
30.5 x 55.9 x 30.5 cm
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In the Impossibly Connected series, Kang explores her feeling of being marginal, living between and attempting to painfully bridge two cultural realities. Formed by two primary elements – brick and...
In the Impossibly Connected series, Kang explores her feeling of being marginal, living between and attempting to painfully bridge two cultural realities. Formed by two primary elements – brick and nylon thread – the work explores temporal and spatial relations, a theme of persistent interest for the artist. A brick, broken in half, represents a split self, two identities and the space between the past and the future. Kang’s process starts with repeatedly hammering on the brick to create a crack, eventually splitting the brick into two pieces. She stains the broken pieces with house paint, photographs them and then, again, in a repetitive movement, embroider thin nylon threads onto the two-dimensional photograph. Kang sees her work as an experiment to visualize the impossible attempt to reconnect the two broken pieces. The repetitive action reflects the concept of ourselves as the embodiment of time passing between the past and the future.