Name of defeated racing horse and names of all the islands with their own rules

In my solo show, ‘Gomyomsom’ held in 2016, I have experimented with the possibility of a sculptural body of space making movement of materials in a certain timeline according to a rule which makes narratives. I usually do not designate or define anything before starting the installation, but I was looking for a name that could be called out well. I was passing by a racetrack and picked up a paper that listed the names of the horses, and one of them was Gomyomsom. The Korean word ‘som’has a meaning of ‘island’ which was interesting as it was an unusual name for a horse. I looked it up and found out that Gomyomsom was a defeated horse with no significant record in his short 3 years of life. I took this name as a title of my solo show and made it a name of a place yet to be visited or a place that is presently arousing. It would have been the Third place which hopes to apply a different rule of aesthetic or ethics other than winning or losing, being saved for a good usage or killed merely, otherwise.

Beginning with sculpturing a wall of a previous exhibition in the gallery, I have selected or discarded body of materials from the past. The memory of the present space is assorted with the past and are restructured with the cancellation of the previous traffic line. Each object that came from different places founds its new form and role and was placed in their own inevitable spot – place of entering, place of emerging, place to pass by, place to stop by, place to look back on, place to lower body, place to look ahead, place to be seen from close distance, place to be silent. The Gallery perhaps became a giant body of sculpture, a machine that holds and push aside visitors for a certain period which allows the visitors to experience a journey in between multiple layers of senses.