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Kunstbiennalen Dikemark, Asker, Norway.
November
OCCUPY TIME FUTURES travel exhibition, FOTODOK, Utrecht, Netherlands.
CV / ABOUT
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Kunstbiennalen Dikemark, Asker, Norway.
November
OCCUPY TIME FUTURES travel exhibition, FOTODOK, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Documentation by 고정균 Goh Jeong Kyung
2026
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, magnet, metal, engraved plexiglass and plexiglass mirror.
Arrangements according to the site, 14 sets of works, individually measure approx. 20x20x3 cm.
As the Crow Flies, a project looking into memory and shifting identities between places. The title, taken from the phrase "as the crow flies" (referring to the most direct path), reflects the emotional and temporal distances that influence the notion of home.
Over time, I noticed that many of the photographs returned to the women in my family. Their presence is often marked through ordinary objects: mirrors, combs, skincare products, clocks, recipes, red envelopes, and photographs of loved ones. These domestic spaces became a way of thinking about care expressed without language. Love appears indirectly: in food prepared over the course of an entire day, in money pressed into a pocket before departure, and in habits repeated across generations. These gestures often exist alongside obligation, conflict, and unspoken expectations, making care difficult to separate from burden.
The title takes the form of a request rather than a statement, suggesting a message that cannot be delivered directly and must instead be carried by someone or something else. The "her" remains open. It could refer to a grandmother, a mother, a younger woman in a photograph, or a past version of myself. As I continued returning to these images, I became interested in how photographs and family archives function in a similar way. They appear to preserve a moment, yet their meanings continue to shift as relationships, memories, and perspectives change around them.
This body of work introduces layered transparent, coloured, and mirrored plexiglass as both a structural and conceptual element. Magnets embedded within the acrylic hold the photographs together without visible fixings, while coloured reflections become part of the images themselves. The mirrored surfaces reflect, fragment, and shift the photographs as viewers move through the space, becoming part of the changing nature of memory and the continual reconstruction of family histories.
Additional Installation Views
Production support:GBLUE gallery,Dajeong_Jeong
Design: Ki Jung Lee
Photography: Jeong Kyun Goh