FLUIDITY

Mix media on canvas. 40 X 50 CM. 2018 Collection: Game Changer Relic No. GCE-V.O02 Symbolic Function: “Fluidity” symbolizes the permeability of boundaries—between structure and chaos, between the organic and synthetic, between collapse and emergence. It holds the tension of form without finality, honoring the body’s capacity to adapt in restriction. Energetic Function: This relic acts as a flexibility enhancer—it helps loosen rigid cognitive and emotional frameworks, especially in those who feel blocked by their own perfectionism or trapped in linear decision-making. Its essence is not to break structure, but to bend it into new potentials. Created in the era of constrained resources and creative adaptation, Fluidity reflects a masterful negotiation between material limitation and conceptual expansion. Composed during a time when large formats became unsustainable, this relic embodies the artist’s radical resilience—compressing epic gesture into intimate scale. The black pool at the base suggests gravity, inner density, and subconscious compression, while the translucent plastic droplets rise like frequencies unmoored from matter. From a neuroscientific perspective, the visual configuration disrupts the brain’s search for conventional hierarchy or symmetry, instead stimulating lateral thinking and opening new perceptual pathways. The mind encounters unfamiliar forms it cannot easily name, forcing it to forge new neural associations—a paradigm shift at the level of visual language. From the esoteric dimension, the relic seems to breathe. The droplets behave like signal receptors—picking up unseen data, memories, or subtle fields from the surrounding environment. The central form is neither fully human nor fully alien, echoing the artist’s lifelong dialogue with hybridity, becoming, and quantum metamorphosis. CURATORIAL COMMENTARY by Dong-hyun Yoon Archive for Trans-Contextual Inquiry, ATI Seoul/Berlin.