BEING IN PLAY

About BEING IN PLAY

This installation is a quiet contemplation of the essence of being, situated on a threshold where presence and absence continuously pass through one another. At its core stands an organic sculptural form, derived from the flows and movements of nature. Though its rough and solid materiality asserts a clear sense of presence within the space, it simultaneously holds a subtle instability—an almost imperceptible tremor.

Encircling it, a cold, geometric mirror structure gradually dissolves the boundary between reality and illusion. A single form disperses into multiple layers within the mirrors, its reflections lingering in space like afterimages of things that do not fully exist. As the visible and the invisible intersect and reflect one another, we begin to sense that existence is not singular, but composed of overlapping strata.

This work quietly evokes the realization that even the “moment” we believe we can grasp is constantly slipping away and being reflected elsewhere—and that it is precisely within this ephemerality that being reveals itself. The mirror functions not merely as a surface that reflects light, but as a “field of absence” that refracts reality itself. Within the structure formed by tilted planes, the object’s form continuously wavers and transforms depending on the viewer’s position and depth of gaze. A single shape, never fixed, renews itself with each act of perception.

Ultimately, this work reveals that the way we perceive both the world and ourselves is never a fixed entity, but rather a relational structure—constantly reconstructed through the overlap of subject and object, reality and imagination. The sculptural fragments appear like pieces of fluid emotions and memories, and through the fissures between them, thought deepens further.