Size
17 x 275 inches
Printed February 2024
Photographed November 2024
Printed February 2024
Photographed November 2024
Ch’onhado (all under heaven) spans a 23-foot scroll, superimposing personal garment diagrams with Korean historiography.
Photographs of anti-trusteeship arson attacks from the Kyunghyang Shinmun archives; colonial religious scholarship by Swedish, Australian, and American missionaries; Joseon geobukseon warships; silk paintings of retreating intruders; mythical sino-centric maps; haenyeo divers and dockworkers; textures of dried anchovies and netted shadows.
These are porous histories, mirrored and spliced and multiplied. The pattern is defined. Cut the line and chronology falls in a crumpled heap. I prefer a crumpled heap, history at my feet, not stretched above my head.1 Where we perceive a chain of events, [the angel of history] sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet…The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned.2
Inkjet on silk georgette and kōzo paper, handstitched seams.
Photographs of anti-trusteeship arson attacks from the Kyunghyang Shinmun archives; colonial religious scholarship by Swedish, Australian, and American missionaries; Joseon geobukseon warships; silk paintings of retreating intruders; mythical sino-centric maps; haenyeo divers and dockworkers; textures of dried anchovies and netted shadows.
These are porous histories, mirrored and spliced and multiplied. The pattern is defined. Cut the line and chronology falls in a crumpled heap. I prefer a crumpled heap, history at my feet, not stretched above my head.1 Where we perceive a chain of events, [the angel of history] sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet…The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned.2
Inkjet on silk georgette and kōzo paper, handstitched seams.
1 Lis Rhodes, “Whose History?,” in Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film: 1910–1975, (London: Arts Council / Hayward Gallery, 1979), 119-20.
2 Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History,” in Early Writings: 1910–1917, trans. Howard Eiland & Others, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011).
2 Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History,” in Early Writings: 1910–1917, trans. Howard Eiland & Others, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011).