Echoes Woven 2026
Pigment print, black wooden frame
120 x 80 cm
Pigment print, black wooden frame
120 x 80 cm
Echoes Woven traces psychotic breakdowns and depression across three generations of women in my family, questioning whether these patterns stem from genetic inheritance or from the external pressures of a patriarchal and capitalist society. Drawing on family photo archives and reenactment, the project situates depression not as a private burden but as a structural condition shaped by the socio-political position of women in South Korea. Each generation is placed within its specific historical moment, from the postwar period to rapid industrialization, while my own experience as an Asian woman in Western Europe adds another layer: it is from this position of cultural displacement that certain inherited patterns become most visible. The project works across two photographic registers, archival family images and staged reenactments, using photography not merely as documentation but as a methodology for inquiring into body, time, and transmission. Grounded in autotheory and speculative research, it asks what language alone cannot answer: how structural violence is lived, passed down, and quietly turned into something each woman carries as her own.
Duo Exhibition Erzähl mir nicht, wer ich bin! at Ausstellungsbrücke, St. Pölten, 2026
Duo Exhibition Erzähl mir nicht, wer ich bin! at Ausstellungsbrücke, St. Pölten, 2026