Korean artist Choi Goen is highlighted in the Korean Artists Today initiative, focusing on contemporary artists with global potential. Choi's sculptures are crafted from everyday discarded items, emphasizing material's past life. Her works, such as the installation White Home Yard, use components like fridge shells and air conditioners to challenge perceptions of consumption and infrastructure. The recently commissioned White Home Wall: Welcome features 60 air conditioning units, arranged to reveal domesticity's hidden elements, prompting viewers to reconsider their perspectives on familiar materials and their histories in daily life.
"My work always begins with discovering a material. When I come across something that sparks a desire to change or reimagine it, that moment becomes the starting point of a piece."
"I imagined it as a kind of eclipse, revealing the hidden exteriors of domestic infrastructure that are usually invisible. It felt like a monument to consumption, like the exhumed bodies of products on display just before their afterlife."
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