Finding Home 2023
The work exhibited is an extended series of photographic artwork called "Finding Home," which began in the UK. In 2019, I explored how the "sense of belonging" is evoked by borrowing the idea of homeless people's mobile homes. However, after going through three years of pandemic and 21 days of quarantine, I came up with new perspectives; the home could be everywhere.
Finding Home, 2019
The initial idea of "Finding Home" is started from the sentence that I wrote in my diary during the notorious winter days in England:
"If I feel secure only in this small room, did I lock myself in or am I trapped?"
Behind the apartment I used to live in Leeds, there is a small car park where I often fnd homeless people living in a small tent. I felt very complicated and contradictory whenever I saw them. I thought they were people who actually belonged to the city but had nowhere to “live in”. Yet, I was the one who didn't belong to the city even though I had a place to live. Through this work, I visualised the absence of a sense of belonging by borrowing the idea of homeless people's mobile home. I wanted to remind the audience of their own meaning and definition of the word "home."
