Guestroom edition artworks

Legacy I - III (I - blue variation II - silver variation III - bronze variation)

variable sizes, screen ink & gum tape on Arches and Fabriano 300 gsm paper, 2017-2018

These edition artworks installed in the most intimate spaces of the hotel are compositions of shadows — shadows of the Hibiscus Syriacus flower, the national flower of South Korea. Portrayed as flat, solid tonal variations of color and ambiguous form, these depictions lack detail or visual cues as to what they are actually portraying. In this sense, these compositions are symbolic representations of the deteriorating memory of tradition and culture in a contemporary world, and in particular modern Korean society, which has gone through turbulent and dramatic change over the past century. Within this contemporary society, focused solely on that which lies ahead, and disregarding its past, traditional ideas and values are commonly discarded and lost. Yet occasionally these lost remnants emerge, like our shadows emerge from our own forms, attached to us wherever we go, reminding us of themselves. These shadows are the legacies of the past — the past existing in the here and now, existing in all its relevancy.