Magisches Theater
2024
Mixed media installation
Dimensions variable
This project originated from an incident of my mother's loss. When I was 11, she
claimed that she was lured away from home by a voice, intending to leave the secular world and become a nun. She was found missing for two days in a temple. This
incident remains a mystery to me even today. I often associate it with a state of being
lost, entranced, and in a daze. As a child, in my imagination, my mother seemed to
have entered another world, which influenced and echoed my own perception and
experience of the world. It was a dissociative experience, with sounds and images
coming from all directions, both internally and externally, leaving the subject with a
confused perception and perspective, a lost identity, and a bewildered self-awareness.
My mother believes that reality is merely a fictional film with more frames, whereas
I perceive the world within movies as another universe, a labyrinth of perception.
How should one experience reality? In film theory, the screen is compared to a
mirror, a window, a door, and a picture frame. I lose myself in perception and sensation within the screen of reality, surrounded by mirrors that reflect nothing but
not my own body.
Memory, too, is a labyrinth. Screens and images serve as gateways and spaces, carrying and unlocking memories and perceptions. In this work, I have constructed a
maze of memories, embodying my subjective fantasies and confusions about the
world, rebirth, individual memories, and diverse perspectives. This maze is built
from these confusions and losses, folding infinitely within images and various mediums, extending inward, not leading anywhere, with the core of loss and confusion
being the folding itself.
The use of numerous stairs and entrances serves as a symbol of transition and
change, acting as a medium connecting different spaces and states.
The "Magisches Theater " in "Steppenwolf" serves as a symbolic space, which concretizes the protagonist Harry's spiritual dilemma and transcends the duality of reality and fantasy, rationality and irrationality. It is a venue where the fantastical experiences and dreamlike scenarios within the theater blur the boundaries between the real and the imagined. I have created this work by borrowing this concept.
Birth and death are both in harmony with the universe, yet existence itself is a deviation from it .
The "Magisches Theater " in "Steppenwolf" serves as a symbolic space, which concretizes the protagonist Harry's spiritual dilemma and transcends the duality of reality and fantasy, rationality and irrationality. It is a venue where the fantastical experiences and dreamlike scenarios within the theater blur the boundaries between the real and the imagined. I have created this work by borrowing this concept.
Birth and death are both in harmony with the universe, yet existence itself is a deviation from it .