SKINS

2024, digital prints, polyester, various sizes, woven fabric, cotton, 200 x 150 cm

SKINS comprises prints of abstract patterns on fabric and weavings, designed from forensic SEM images of skin remains on TVXQ’s stage costumes. The work draws inspiration from the “Under my Skin” refrain in their 2008 song “Mirotic.”
SKINS leaves room for speculation. It plays with projections onto celebrity culture, yet pivots to everyday intimacies—where we shed invisible skin flakes that settle on surfaces, textiles, and other bodies. We constantly contaminate self and other in strangely unnoticed ways. This continues my interest in archives, archaeological traces, and translating marks into diverse visual languages.
Exhibition View, Time to Stage, PLACE-C, Gyeongju, 2025, KR
Print on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
Print on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
Print on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
Print on canvas, 80 x 80 cm
Print on canvas, 80 x 100 cm
Print on canvas, 80 x 100 cm
Exhibition View: Time to Stage at 2024 C.at Work Festa: NEW WORLD, Seoul
SKINS, photograph, 15 x 15 cm, b&w, ramed and mounted, 42 x 32 cm
SKIN UNDER, HD 9,03 min, color, sound, HD video, 2025
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