Under My Memory

2023

Water Soluble Fabric, Bamboo Stripes, Cellophane

200cm x 200cm x 200cm

This work started from my fascination with prisms — how light passes through a surface and breaks into colors, how something clear can still hide fragments within. I used layers of cellophane inside the structure to hold that same sense of curiosity and the distant shimmer of childhood memories.

The outer layer is made of water-soluble cloth. When touched by water, it slowly dissolves, revealing what lies beneath — the inner, fragile core. During the performance, I kept pulling the rope from underneath, trying to hold the fabric together, trying to stop it from melting. But no matter how carefully I moved, it always melted in the end.

It felt like watching my own memories fade — not all at once, but gradually, quietly. Each drop of water was like time itself, erasing and revealing at the same moment.

The process of making this piece was also full of trial and failure. My first attempt collapsed — the structure was too small, too heavy at the top, impossible to balance. But maybe that failure also became part of the memory I wanted to trace: the way things fall apart, and the way we still keep trying to hold them.