“We are the problems there, so we are trying to solve ourselves.”
When I first tried to name this collection, the word ‘method’ came to my mind. At that time, I would always try to find a method to ‘tame’ different materials while creating new works. The method was, sometimes, to undergo multiple challenges or difficulties and, at other times, to achieve an unexpected result with the ‘wrong’ presentation. It seemed to be a natural law to solve problems with methods. Only until I saw a statement online did the fallacy of this idea occur to me: the concept of ‘method’ presumes the relativity of the two ends; the more effective a presumption of the solution is, the less possible it is for the problem to escape from the presumption.
I started to question and collect information about ‘the ability to….’ Despite it being called a "method," this project would be more accurately described as an approach to existing unfamiliarity through such an inability. The addressed subjects may lose a certain part in constructing their own meanings, but they also acquire a new position in such a contradiction owing to their defects in functionality. In line with this concept, the current collection, titled Methods, is set out to accumulate my past works named after different methods and to present the echo between various versions of ‘me’ and their corresponding dialogues.
When I first tried to name this collection, the word ‘method’ came to my mind. At that time, I would always try to find a method to ‘tame’ different materials while creating new works. The method was, sometimes, to undergo multiple challenges or difficulties and, at other times, to achieve an unexpected result with the ‘wrong’ presentation. It seemed to be a natural law to solve problems with methods. Only until I saw a statement online did the fallacy of this idea occur to me: the concept of ‘method’ presumes the relativity of the two ends; the more effective a presumption of the solution is, the less possible it is for the problem to escape from the presumption.
I started to question and collect information about ‘the ability to….’ Despite it being called a "method," this project would be more accurately described as an approach to existing unfamiliarity through such an inability. The addressed subjects may lose a certain part in constructing their own meanings, but they also acquire a new position in such a contradiction owing to their defects in functionality. In line with this concept, the current collection, titled Methods, is set out to accumulate my past works named after different methods and to present the echo between various versions of ‘me’ and their corresponding dialogues.