My practice is about the Self. I seek subjectivity and authenticity in making art: I rehearse my fears to acquire them; I reflect on my stories to extend them; I perceive my emotions to connect them. Creating is my moment of contemplation, where I confront, and then accept the self. I feel an urgent need to find the inner missing parts. I search for my mirror images in the creations. I make portraits of myself to discard the illusionary appearances, recording myself in essence through evolving stages.

My practice is more about Us. I create interactions to experience each other as truly human, to retrieve our sense of reality. When objects have become the extension of us, I build communication to beat numbness and isolation. I make installations and performances to provide us with a common space, to invite conscious resonance with a bare heart, to provoke responsive dialogues by staying vulnerable. I present our faces, an intuitive signifier, a window to natural emotions, a wordless language. People inadvertently enter my experiment in human interactions. We begin to notice how our identities are reduced and categorized into a mere representation.

My creation is also about It. We unconsciously embrace technology into our personal systems and conversely serve it as its servo-mechanism. I study the impact of technological affordances on the nature of humanity. Even in death, when one's physical presence ceases to exist, we extend our lives in footprints of intangible codes. We are ushering in the birth of a new extension of us, artificial intelligence. How is it going to reconstruct our perceptions? How can it influence the dynamics of interpersonal interaction? We investigate the tension between human and technology.

I work with installation, light art, performance, sound, film, photography, and ceramics. I’m trying to take my work to art scenes outside of institutions. I’m shaking off my sense of disempowerment. I connect with the audience through the most intuitive sound and visual experience; through self-reflection and rigorous research; through exposing myself to embrace them. The emphasis is never on the medium, but on the idea that is expressed through it.

AngyHe

Works

Playground

Selected