CLEAN


The series Clean, consisting of Onnanoko (女の子), Nuhai (女孩), and Sonyeo (소녀), examines gendered violence, imperialism, and the sanitization of historical memory across East Asia. Through these works, I return to a recurring question in my practice: where does the body go under extreme conditions of trauma, coercion, survival, and erasure?

I think about the body as a site where violence accumulates across generations, where grief, shame, resilience, and memory become embedded into form. The sculptures hold a tension between fragility and endurance, rupture and persistence. I am interested in how histories that are suppressed or unresolved continue to distort the body psychologically and physically, while still carrying the possibility of survival.