꽃과 꽃을 바꿉니다

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

<꽃과 꽃을 바꿉니다> Exchanging Flowers with Flowers, 퍼포먼스 이미지, 2024
Performance image

Work with Hyuna Lee

On my birthday in 2024, I received sentences containing the word 'flower' from 88 people and gave them actual flowers in return. This act of exchanging physical flowers for the 'flower' within a text functions like a translation between language and object, demonstrating the process by which a private celebration expands into a collective experience.