Certainty / Entropy (Japan 5)

2014

Unravelled fabric designed by the artist with coloured warp threads, wooden frame

146 x 200 cm

Exhibited at

Thin Membrane, Pictures Come Down, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany (2014)

Artist File 2015 Next Doors, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (2015)

Artist File 2015 Next Doors, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (2015-16)

Certainty / Entropy (Japan 5)

The fabric refers to Stand cover (kyokechi-dyed fabric) in the 8th century in Japan and contemporary symbols are sprinkled over the traditional fabric as a part of flowers. The contemporary symbols that are surrounding us in the society are quoted from copyright mark, @ mark, nuclear symbol, bio mark, peace mark, credit card company symbols, gene image, irradiated mark, placenta image, womb image, biohazard mark and etc.

 

The Certainty / Entropy series work concept

Photo by

Roland Baege