“we become each other's shelter, not innocent enough to unsee any goodbye" (2025)

thesis show at the cooper union

In a world saturated with simulacra and replication, does the real still remain? As plastic becomes a metaphor for experience, standardized materials not only shape objects but quietly reshape memory, intimacy, and the sense of embodiment. How does the individual seek refuge within this construct? This exhibition constructs a transient space, where soft boundaries obscure and reveal the presence of the viewer—like a drifting fog that blurs distinctions, making the act of seeing one another both distant and intimate. The artist uses one material to simulate the texture of another: resin resembles jade, and plastic mimics skin. These imitated realities hide their origins when seen from afar, yet upon close inspection, their true nature is unveiled - thus forming a perceptible but not easily identifiable kind of truth, a substituted real that, in its very substitution, still remains real.

"Until one day, a heavy mist wraps around us.

you catch a faint glimpse of me, and I see you too. "