Women Who Weep
There was a time when I watched many old Korea movies, and I was interested in the way many women cry in the old cinema. When they cry they are either close to the ground or some kind of space where they need to press with their hands.
40 pages, 120 x 180 mm, soft cover, 2025
Women Who Smoke
When I was in my 20s in Korea, for a woman, smoking was something simultaneously secret and proud, as well as some undefined joy.
These women don’t have a glamorous jobs or outfits, but the moment of smoking looked incredibly glamorous and even religious. Did the film maker Aki Kaurismaki intend this?
The form and the white smoke coming out of your mouth can be something like magic. Though one little matter is that they resemble the capitalist factory’s mouth.
40 pages, 120 x 180 mm, soft cover, 2025
Women Who Scream
‘Call the Midwife’ is one of the very first English dramas that I watched in UK. I remember I enjoyed it so much, day after day that I felt guilt of some sort. That feeling I couldn’t understand. So I started to draw without any purpose, a series of quite law images. I was deeply moved by the repetition of most women’s hard labours.
40 pages, 130 x 190 mm, soft cover, 2025
So Far no Sofa
I love the visual aspects of various sofa objects that I had seen in many shops. And my long term hesitation regarding whether I should buy one or not, gladly ended when this title came into my mind, revealing that I no longer need to have any sofa. Instead I made this little book.
All the stories are based on what happened in the following month, whether in real life or ‘real’ in my mind.
40 pages, 140 x 165 mm, soft cover, 2023
Cash or Smash
This is an outcome of the unsettling time of my final days of having my last studio. I had been given ‘ notice to leave’, along with hundreds of artists in the building. Many of us were unable to afford a new studio, and we often bumped into each other in the back yard of the building where many skips were quickly filled.
But one weekend, I took one of my old works into a gallery, and borrowed the audience’s hands to make decisions about its value.
I had hundreds of participants.
