Walking the Threshold
"Walking The Threshold" is an audio-visual installation that explores the creative interplay between ritual and art practice, examining how traditional ceremonies can be transformed into cinematic language within a gallery space, a meticulously curated art environment. Inspired by memories of traditional Korean funeral processions, I designed a sculptural screen structure that resembles a Sangyeo, a funeral bier, onto which an imagined landscape is projected. The projection onto reflective surfaces enhances sensory engagement, inviting the viewer in a spiritual and cinematic experience.
This installation embodies a ceremonial quality that underlines the concept of "expanded cinema," aiming to reconceptualize sacred spaces as dynamic venues for cinematic experience that sharpens the senses viscerally and intellectually. I am intrigued by the reconfiguration of film content within physical space, empowering the medium’s impact on both time and space, which is in line with the concept of cinematic corporeality— cinema as the medium of the senses.
@Kala Art Gallery, 2022
Installation View
Walking the Threshold, Painting Version
