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  • We All Endure What We Can

    We All Endure What We Can

    We All Endure What We Can is a sculpture with a seesaw-like balancing mechanism. It tries to keep a balance between iron reinforced resin cast hand with pushing gesture on one end of the...

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  • Lost

    Lost

    Lost is a sculpture that portrays a person leaning on a bike stand on a street.

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  • Shovel-head

    Shovel-head

    Shovel-head is a sculpture that resembles a shovel but with a human head at the end of shovel instead of a spade-shaped normal shovel head. *In Korean, ‘digging ground’ is used for ‘wasting...

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  • A Man on a Pavement Block

    A Man on a Pavement Block

    A Man on a Pavement Block is a life-sized iron reinforced resin cast sculpture on a pavement block with a lumber, which is from a construction site, piercing through the lower body...

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  • Unconditional Movement – Vertical II, Gorilla

    Unconditional Movement – Vertical II, Gorilla

    Unconditional Movement – Vertical II, Gorilla is a kinetic sculpture. It is a part of ‘Unconditional Movement’ series which focuses on GIF images like simple, endless mechanical language....

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  • Unconditional Movement – Horizontal I

    Unconditional Movement – Horizontal I

    Unconditional Movement – Horizontal I is a kinetic sculpture. It is a part of ‘Unconditional Movement’ series which focuses on GIF images like simple, endless mechanical language....

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  • Unconditional Movement – Vertical I

    Unconditional Movement – Vertical I

    Unconditional Movement – Vertical I is a kinetic sculpture. It is a part of ‘Unconditional Movement’ series which focuses on GIF images like simple, endless mechanical language. ‘Vertical...

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  • Fleshly Response

    Fleshly Response

    Fleshly Response (2012) is a kinetic sculpture. A skin-like silicone slab is hung from the top of the structure. The silicon slab vibrates as the small hammer, which is attached to the...

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  • Fair Idle

    Fair Idle

    Fair Idle (2012) is a kinetic sculpture. The hand scoops the sand and let it go and doing it endlessly.

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  • Quicksand

    Quicksand

    Quicksand(2012) is a kinetic sculpture. The sculpture has a vibrator underneath the bucket. As it vibrates, the sand in the bucket ripples like quicksand. It is a concealed inward agitation...

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  • One of the Forgotten

    One of the Forgotten

    One of the Forgotten (2011) is an interactive kinetic sculpture. When the audiences come close to the sculpture, the door of the safe starts banging itself from the inside as if there was...

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  • With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility

    With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility

    With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility (2011) is a sculpture that is inspired by the famous quote from Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Greek Mythology.

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  • Alone Together, The Last Message

    Alone Together, The Last Message

    Alone Together, The Last Message (2011) is an electric chair with two translucent cast arms strapped onto it, one of which holds a smartphone. The sculpture has a mobile phone detector,...

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  • Weight of Unseen

    Weight of Unseen

    Weight of Unseen (2011) is an interactive kinetic sculpture. It’s built with a large seven- segment display unit made out of steel, seven motors, a manual chain hoist, a length of chain and...

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  • Mindless Consumption II

    Mindless Consumption II

    Mindless Consumption II(2011) is a closed circuit pump system which circulating water in the tube endlessly. The water gets dirtier and darker over time as the pump corrodes.

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  • We know this but we just don’t know how to do it

    We know this but we just don’t know how to do it

    We know this but we just don’t know how to do it (2010) is a kinetic sculpture that mimics door knocking. It’s built with hand carved wooden hand, a door, a microprocessor and a distance...

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  • Homage to Old Rug Makers

    Homage to Old Rug Makers

    Homage to Old Rug Makers (2010) is a rug made out of 4 different colours of 1995 small light bulbs and bulb holders. Although the bulbs are all wired up, electricity is not connected on...

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  • Significantly Stronger Empathy

    Significantly Stronger Empathy

    Significantly Stronger Empathy (2010) is consisted of two parts, Burning and Still Burning . The first part is a video footage of burning five layers of fire-shaped wooden sculpture. The...

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  • Mindless Consumption

    Mindless Consumption

    Mindless Consumption (2010) is a wooden sculpture with a water pump system. The pump system only circulates the water that is filled in the tube in the production stage, from the...

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  • English Dickhead

    English Dickhead

    English Dickhead (2010) , is a kinetic sculpture covered in the Union Jack and was built with layered plywood sheets, a microprocessor, a servomotor and motion detecting sensors. The...

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