Weight of Leaving — xhdpwl.com

I grew up moving between China and Korea. Conditions that define me — such as nationality, language, and even my birthday — have always made my identity unstable. This experience, which cannot be reduced to a single answer, has become the fundamental question that drives my work. I explore the uncertainty and fractures arising from a borderland identity, and attempt to extend them to a social dimension. Instead of concealing or mending my instability, I reveal and record it, seeking new relationships and meanings through the process.

오예지 Yeji Oh 吴礼智
xhdpwl@naver.com

Weight of Leaving, 아빠의 캐리어, 옷, 가방, 위생랩, 테이프, 레진, 가변설치, 2025
Dad’s travel trunk, clothes, bag, fabric, plastic wrap, tape, resin, variable installation
photo © KyeongJin Nam

The suitcase for movement remains an empty shell, while the clothes to be moved remain as heavily solidified lumps. Though clothes are traces containing body scents and time, they harden into monuments that seal identity. Freedom and mobility are inverted into fixed stigmas, and leaving is revealed not as liberation, but as a weight that remains like tears.