Sujin Moon

Period: 2025/01/15 ~ 2025/04/04

Nation: South Korea

Genre: Installation

I have been working with floating thoughts from life through the language of sculpture. For me, sculpture is a learning process—wrestling with the physical world. I touch surfaces to feel the textures of things, bearing the weight of objects against me as I move and manipulate them. Work begins with simple acts and becomes concrete through the discovery of what it feels like when I move my body and execute these acts, and the meanings I find within them. I have been questioning how to capture and convey sculpture—whether sculpture is a bodily yet immaterial experience and a relationship built through that experience, while my work spans sculpture, performance, bookmaking, installation, and writing.

In the work Living Island, a month-long durational performance, I shoveled snow and created a snow island on a frozen lake, which was eventually destined to disappear as spring arrived. The bodily experience of the performance was documented and rendered into an artist book, video, and text from the attempts to translate the work into physical form that can connect with the viewers’ bodies.

In my recent solo show Tactile Recall, I presented a body of work exploring how memories are engraved in the body through the tactile language of sculpture, through the lens of the story of my grandmother, LEE Jungja. The work grapples with the question of how to compile a chronicle of a person whose stories have remained unwritten and can only be recalled through the body's memory, such as the smell and texture of skin. I attempted to give a physical body to the tactile memory through tangible works, including a sculptural book and touchable installation, imagining that the sculptural moment could occur when viewers engage physically with the works.