A Strange Distance

A Strange Distance reflects on the meanings we project onto the objects of others and the sentimental ghosts they carry and lose through distance and time. Ranging from comedic to somber, the thirteen handmade sculptures and readymades on the altar-like installation nudges the viewer into asking “ Who is the owner of these objects?  Who is the person rediscovering them? What is the relationship between these two people? Why did they collect these things?”, and “Why are these the objects of sentiment?” These questions quietly allude to a withered relationship and ambiguous states of mind. 

In the form of a clock, the installation consists of twelve sculptures lining its border and one sculpture in the middle. The twelve border sculptures represent the hours on a clock while the sculpture in the middle acts as the second hand– ever present, ever ticking. The fluctuating spaces between the sculptures symbolize the experience of lost time, shaped by the subjective feeling of time accelerating and decelerating.

The pairing of trompe l'oeil sculptures and readymades blurs the boundaries of fiction:reality and representation:presentation, mimicking the instability of memory itself. This mimicry reveals the tension and dilemma of whether memory is more real than the material reality.