Layer, 병풍, The Folding Screen

"Layer, 병풍, the folding Screen" reexamines social roles and positions, conveying messages of individualism, repressed instincts, and rational rejection through performance, video, and sculpture. In modern society, individuals lose their sense of purpose, left only with goals and roles, like walking through an endless tunnel. This work seeks to express that experience.

"Name" explores how women lose their identity and live solely through their roles in society. From birth, women are assigned the role of a daughter, and later, through marriage, they form a family, with the primary goal of fulfilling the role of a mother. In this process, they become like a folding screen, with their individuality concealed behind their roles. I explore the process by which women are defined and bound by these social expectations, while also questioning modern society's acceptance of these roles and positions as natural and inevitable.

However, through performance, the act of dismantling the screen that represents a woman’s life symbolizes the confrontation with one’s true self, revealing the process of reclaiming lost individuality.