Ryeojin Min (Lea)

‘The Shelf’ is a new alternative space. Borrowing a quantum mechanical perspective, this project takes a different perspective on the space between reality and virtuality;, that is, the boundary in a different way. This installation describes the space at the boundary as a world of waves: a space of possibility. Specifically, this work speculates on the reconstructed space through the circulation of dismantled pieces. Therefore, this installation, which symbolises a part of the virtual space, not only asks questions about the relationship between particles and space and the meaning of the existence of virtual space, but also positively views the space of uncertainty.

‘The Shelf’ uses a ready-made shelf to place the series works, allowing the audience to experience a vertical movement of their gaze. The installation in the empty space allows the viewers to experience a part of the virtual planet visually, auditorily, and tactilely through various media. Therefore, ‘The shelf’ opens the positive possibilities as an indicator of the reconstructed virtual space.

‘What kind of matrix does the new world created through the deconstruction and reconstruction of virtual particles have?’

The graphic documentary, Virtual Particles, is a visual essay that combines fact and fiction as a planetary science study. This graphic documentary records the random movement of particles existing in alternative spaces in the order of world-space-particles. This work depicts an ever-changing space through the creation and extinction of digital dots with irregular orbits. This project researches, reinterprets and archives virtual particles for the study of hypothetical planets.

Let's think again, by breaking up space and objects in the form of microscopic particles. The virtual particle field created by the movement of countless dust is a series of contingencies. The movement of virtual particles with random trajectories in the flow of relative time is a clue that assumes the existence of another space-time. The graphic documentary Virtual Particles positively depicts coincidental matrix caused by irregular particles.

Sound Design Jay Kim, Angelica Lee

The endless dance of the atoms has no end or purpose. Like everything else in nature, we are one of the many products of this infinite dance. So it's a product of an accidental combination. Nature is constantly experimenting with form and structure. 

— Carlo Rovelli: 'Reality Is Not What It Seems'

'Everyday Particle(s)' is an exploration of everyday space. This project series is divided into three parts. And the identity applied throughout the project is inspired by the morphological features of irregular particles. These microscopic dust particles wander freely in everyday space, collide, push and pull. The diverse spaces created by these random linear motions of atoms constantly experiment with forms and structures. 

‘Everyday Particle(s)’ is the process of creating a new image epistemology. This hypothetical geological study depicts everyday space and the movement of particles that make it up in various ways. It records an ever-changing daily space with various visual grammars.

Based on this concept, the space in ‘Everyday Particle(s)’ has uncertain and unpredictable characteristics. Numerous perspectives coexist and various movements exist in our lives. There is no space that lasts forever, only a space of coincidence that is constantly broken and rebuilt by random movements.