SKINS are prints of abstract patterns on fabric and weavings, designed based on forensic SEM (scanning electron microscope) images of skin remains found in TVXQ’s stage costumes. The work is inspired by the refrain “Under my Skin” from their well-known song “Mirotic” (2008).
SKINS leaves room for speculation and plays with our projections against the backdrop of celebrity culture, but rather with intimacies in our everyday lives, where we all leave behind invisible skin flakes that settle on various surfaces, textiles, collected in dust, or stick to other human bodies. We constantly contaminate, the own and other, strangely intimate, and unnoticed. SKINS is a continuation of my interest in archives and archaeological traces and how marks can be translated into a visual language with diverse materials.
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
