Sleeping
in the Wood
Performance 30’’0’
Spatial Installation 200*200*200cm
Hanging textile, Object from my past, Assemblage sculptures, Projection, Performance, 2023-2024
Sleeping in the Wood is a mixed media work combining performance, sculpture, and video. It is based on the first part of the research Traces: ‘Free-assemblage making’ as a method to touch self-narrative, exploring the materiality of old objects and the potential of crafting to condense and overlap the historicity and storytelling of intimate spaces.
In this experiment, the hidden explorations of a young girl toward the world—found within the kitschy, shiny, and time-specific objects of adolescence—are deciphered and overlapped with an ancient bedroom space, evoking a return to the protective enclosure within a chaotic familial environment. The stories buried within these spaces are unearthed, reinterpreted, and re-understood by the artist, ultimately touching upon a chaotic system of self-narrative.
“This one ball of concentrated past memories noisily screamed of the unconditional love I would never get and the desire to keep filling it. In the vast gaps of my self-narrative were my constant attempts to distance myself from my environment, my attempts to desire the impotence of being desired. It was the restlessness I kept feeling in my mind at work, my need to be safe, safer. I needed stable connection, more stable connection. In a large void, all the attempts I made driven by this force created a disconnect with my overall emotions, which leads to a very sad speculation: Maybe all the attempts I've made in the past have been useless”
At this point, the sphere that fuses past emotional stories and intimate space becomes part of the present environment, serving as the constant amidst change. As a result, the environment and space lose their importance. The artist rests within it, whether in the past or the future, now or elsewhere.