JUYE HAN
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My confusion and frustration with the world is expressed through my work. 
Instead of creating pieces of great significance my work is more about the 
absence of something. But this process gets confusing because even though 
I am making pieces about nothing, I am still making something physical, 
and so the piece becomes a contradiction of itself. My work is an extension 
of myself and reflects the confusion and contradictions within my own mind. 
I am nothing and at the same time I am something, only I don’t know what. 
Because I have no definitive position or point of view I have attempted to 
create one by drawing from those around me; by taking different parts of 
different philosophies to form one of my own.

Not only do my artworks indicate the topics that concern me, but the material 
I use is also of great significance and integral to the concepts that I 
explore. Vinyl’s dual properties aid me in creating a world of illusion - it 
breaks up space, yet at the same time, it does not. Because of the transparent 
quality of vinyl, light permeates through it and visually reconnects the 
physically divided space. In addition, due to its appearance, vinyl often 
looks like glass and leaves an impression of fragility; when in fact it is 
very elastic and durable. Vinyl’s colorless nature can imply a meaningless 
agenda, and can create the semblance of an infinite spatial expansion. For 
instance, in Kitchen, the element closest to the viewers confirm their spatial 
relationship, yet because the vinyl can be seen through, they can also see all 
the elements beyond and the observation results in a sense of the space 
expanding beyond the elements.

In my recent work “Untitled”(physical hologram), I tried to break out of 
reappearance of the objects.

In this work, I gave more physical but more illusive image with something 
unknown and lead viewer can be interactive around it. Along the path, the shape 
inside becomes visible or invisible. 

The illusion that represents the plurality of all objects can stand in as a 
“simulacra” for the answer of truth.