WAYU 2020
2020
site-specific installation
photo, orchideen, ceramic bowl(stoneware), collected stones, water
size variable
Wayu is an old East Asian term, that describes the typical type of appreciating the landscape painting. When the circumstance doesn't allow them to wander nature, people hung landscape paintings of great nature on the walls of the small tea room to enjoy instead.
The work is a combination of Korean antique ceramic bowl that is almost a century old and the stones from different places around the world, collected by the artist and arranged together as a ritual formation of artwork. The photo is a captured moment of the artists’ favorite place and person in mind, which is physically distant in South Korea. Two orchids are indicating the common East Asian motive that is used in tradition to symbolize nobility, loyalty and innocence. Inspired and created during the Corona pandemic, the work addresses and ruminates the meaning of nature and physical reality for mankind in 2020.
The work is a combination of Korean antique ceramic bowl that is almost a century old and the stones from different places around the world, collected by the artist and arranged together as a ritual formation of artwork. The photo is a captured moment of the artists’ favorite place and person in mind, which is physically distant in South Korea. Two orchids are indicating the common East Asian motive that is used in tradition to symbolize nobility, loyalty and innocence. Inspired and created during the Corona pandemic, the work addresses and ruminates the meaning of nature and physical reality for mankind in 2020.
