I am interested in how the ideas of agency and power regulate our private and individual freedoms. Through my experiences in the Korean military, I was forced to live in an environment of intense control that seemed to parallel social mechanisms. This has served as a catalyst for much of my ongoing artistic inquiry. What is the nature of invisible forces, both social and political, that act upon individuals? How do specific control systems impose themselves on democratic ideals? I am using the body as the site for this intensive investigation of the individual and the collective.
I want to pose a question through my work: how does reality become exquisitely animated by certain control systems such as politics, mass media, advertisement, etc.? Furthermore, I want to reveal how human beings are fragile and delicate in these environments. Living in Korea, Japan and the U.S., I have experienced various social systems and have come to view them as raw material for my endeavors. I now think of myself as scholar who poses questions to his audience about the nature of things.
