Mute, 2025
Single-channel video installation, projection on wood, baltic birch plywood, pine, poplar, cement, paper with printed text, polished gemstone marble, screws
Fabrication assisted by Mckenna Goade
Projection mapping assisted by Felisa Nguyen
TYPE AS-SQT, 2025
Poplar, baltic birch plywood, screws
35.8 x 38.1 x 33.5”
A sculpture or apparatus designed for Asian squatting. It originated from the bodily posture itself, a position that resists clear classification within Western ergonomic systems. The act of squatting becomes a problem of naming, categorization, and legibility. The apparatus exposes how bodies are measured, corrected, or rendered improper when they fail to align with dominant systems of knowledge.
I in Error, 2025
Baltic birch plywood, paper with printed text, polished gemstone marble
12 x 9.5 x 2.25”
A wooden panel embedding a single page from the Mute script. One marble is lodged inside one of three drilled holes. Language is present but partially immobilized. Meaning is neither erased nor completed.
Mute, 2025
Single-channel video, color, sound
5:02
The video, projected on a wood screen, presents a play written by the artist. The play centers on four scientists who communicate in four different languages: Italian, English, Korean, and Mandarin. It explores miscommunication, the authority of knowledge and categorization, and the fear of the unknown.