where did you go when we fell asleep? (2018)
mixed media installation, size variable
The year of 2018 is tough, especially knowing there are so many heavy news happening through watching some morning TV newsbroadcast. Construction sites are having serious safety issue, politicians got disqualified as a legislator, etc. It hurts to know that so many things happened during my sleep. I feel guilty for being detached from the world in my unconscious state by sleeping. Things are going wild out of our control, but at least – I want to be connected to these events, so that I feel like that I am spending my time with all who are suffering.
Watching news broadcast is the only way for us to perceive these issues happening all over the world. The duration of the news report is exactly how much time we have spent for a certain issue. I want to connect myself with the outside world bodily and tactically, by capturing my unmade bed which holds me over the night in the duration of the news report.
Pictures of my bed were captured every morning when I wake up, in order to keep a record of a space where has been so intimately attached to me during my sleep. At the same time, I tried to capture my bed with manual shutter speed, which is identical to the time length of the news report of a piece of certain news which hit me the most on that morning, and had the footage of the news report projected onto the image (which happened to be overexposed) afterwards, which feels like I have connected myself with these events.
