YOON, Soo Jung

What We Should Remember

Photography & Installation, 2018

 

 

 

 

With Unused and Abandoned clothes…

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This project is on the extension of <My Place> Project in 2013, which was conducted in the background of traditional fabric market in Tainan of Taiwan, and <Memory, Build a House> Project in 2015, which was completed in collaboration with local residents in Damyang of Korea.

The objects used as mediators to draw their lives are always related to the 'fabric or cloth'. Because I think we can get a sense of people's lives and memories through that.

This project was completed through collaboration with the audience in Tainan. Specially, I was proceeded with workshop <Embroider your memory> for sewing a memory on their unworn clothes in 6789 gallery. Sewing, it takes time. As we need time to recall or erase some memories, I think we need time to recognize and heal the story what mixed with various emotions or the thought and the moment that I could not tell anyone. Therefore, I want to share a short but special time with the audience who participated in this work. And also, through this workshop I hope we have a chance for thinking about ‘act & time’ of sewing, it has two meanings; the value of object & value of labor.

Everything produced in modern society is too easily produced and consumed. Clothes are produced, consumed, and abandoned in countless quantities every day. And there are innumerable inconvenient truths behind that fast fashion. The mass production causes the cheaper clothing. The cost-down lead to more unnecessary purchasing and throw-away is easier and even create some unfair labor environment. (But, we focus only on the surface, and we do not even see and think about the problems inside and backside. Looking at these social phenomena, I realized what we should really be afraid by the fact that we are losing ourselves. It is the fact that we are losing our humanity and our spirit.) It may be true that we must remember. And then, when we buy or wear clothes, if we think little more about how the clothes are quickly made and discarded and processed under unfair labor environments, we can reduce that we easily buy and throw away.

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