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Pass by Me, Penetrate Me, Destroy Me



2023-24
Digital photography
Various cities, Germany

Glass is never transparent. It stages the act of exposure, calling the eye in. [1]

Glass is also transparent,
It is the material that eliminates the existence of time.

Starting in October 2023, I observed the phenomena of shattered glass façade in every place where I temporarily stayed in Germany. Only when the texture of rifts crawling over the surface does the invisible become visible.

The emotions left visual traces.

I am intrigued by how daily visual phenomena influence our hearts and emotions. Therefore, in its first exhibition (I called it “part 1”), I brought all my embodied experiences related to glass and the idea
of transparency and time into one space through different mediums, trying to evoke viewers’ self- reflection through them as well.



[1] Colomina, Beatriz. X-Ray Architecture. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2019. Print. p149.


Pass by Me, Penetrate Me, Destroy Me - Part 1, Kölner Kongress, Funkhaus, Köln, 2025
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Spatial installation including photography, installation, and smell

Medium
Glass objects, mirror, iron plates, injekt print on transparent films, magnets, injet print on Fine Art papers, steel wires, various clamps, glazing candies, sandalwood incense sticks, electric lamp, Chinese calendar, and mechanical clocks


Pass by Me, Penetrate Me, Destroy Me - Part 1, Exhibition View at CASE - Projektraum für Fotografie, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, 2024
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