| | The "unknown zone" is a name for a transit area through which you pass in order to arrive at a certain destination on the Internet. The zone is somewhere in which people attempt to neutralize their own boundaries, for example the "A.T. Field" from Neon Genesis Evangelion, by colliding with others so as to achieve the complete level of communication. Lastly, the "unknown zone" can be portrayed as a place where not only the identities of escaped women would stay with anxiety and instability but also where your other selves who intimidate your inner self could live without any pressure. In the zone, borders are erased and blurred so that places are penetrated and blended. The distinction between the center and periphery does not exist any more. The area cannot be called with a specific name since those who step in the place are people on the run continuously. The zone is where everything is de-territorialized.
Furthermore, the "unknown zone" is in nature similar to such things as "an ambiguous face," "something hidden from me," and "a certain part of a body that can not be named specifically." That is, it is not feasible for people to approach the area with the help of their idiosyncratic experiences or common sense. By relying on provided images by the artist, however, viewers could reach there drawing upon their past experiences.
Fortunately, the current time is the so-called era of interdisciplinarity, uncertainty, and digital media. This trend has assured me that my work can be built upon colliding images from my confusing consciousness and moreover that those images can be viewed as an entity under the title of the "unknown zone." I designed this exhibition as a way to express the various aspects of the "unknown zone" and reveal my personal cognitive pathway that has led me to the zone.
This exhibition is intended to assist viewers in recognizing the existence of the "unknown zone" even though they might be able to feel only a part of the whole picture. By exposing viewers to the "unknown zone," I hope that I could provide a sense datum in my images so that they could feel free from their outside restraints and open to inner resistance.
The works in this exhibition consist of short videos in loop. Each image portrays creatures who belong to the "unknown zone," in particular those who are evicted, escaped and transient. This exhibition is my first invitation to the "unknown zone." I must admit that I do not see myself in the space since I am one of those who do not fully recognize latent restraints from the outside and therefore fail to posit myself in the "unknown zone." As I am one of those, this exhibition is as far as I could go for now in the task of ushering viewers into the "unknown zone."
I sincerely hope that my invitation could help each viewer get to the zone by themselves where no boundaries exist. |
