Apoptosis










Apoptosis
2007
wood, plastic mirror, gypsum board, etc.
168”x288”x144” (14’x24’x12’)
(an entire room size)
The idea of "constructing the image of destruction" comes into my head so frequently these days. It may be "constructing the image of destroyed space." This is intentional construction and simulation of the damaged, not something wrecked accidentally.
Images of destroyed space surround us. These mass media images somehow stimulate our eyes to find something similar. This uncanny power of symbolization forces us to find wrecked buildings, cities, people, airplanes, cars and many other destroyed things in our everyday life. The flood of such images is often pinpointed as a cause of numbness to human suffering; I feel it is undeniably undermining our psychological stability. In this vicious circle, our neuroses overpowers hope. In the way we get over a psychological fixation from traumatic experience by repeating the same symbolic activity over and over, we may be reproducing the image of the destroyed to comprehend our collective contemporary experience. In the way a child keeps singing the same song over and over to get over her/his anxiety and fear standing alone in the middle of nowhere, we may feel totally lost with the realization of how powerless we are.