Namwon Choi
I chose migrancy because it privileges movement and process, in
both space and time, over stability and fixity.
I am a Korean artist who has lived and worked in America for fifteen
years. Since my relocation, the idea of transitional states and the
notion of in-betweenness have led me to become interested in the
network of spaces, especially the highway, a place easily passed
through or forgotten. I found myself being between here and
there; being in between two countries, and in between affiliation
and alienation. I make drawings and monochrome landscape
paintings of highways that manifest the space of transience as a
means of portraying my life in transition. Then I let my paintings—
each fragment, each idea-phrase—react to one another to create
whole sentences, describing a fuller view of my experience of
in-betweenness in the exhibition space.
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