‘Dia-gonis’ #2’(2023)
Installation, Sculpture, Print, Plexiglass Acylic Sheet, Wooden Roller, Recycled Paper, Biodegradable Material, Dimensions Variable
Etymologically speaking, the exhibition title Dia-gonis originally comes from the Latin, dia-(across) and gonis (angle) from angle to angle, which is connecting two non-adjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line. By using the meaning of the title, the work represents the division of nature and culture by disassociating itself from idealised and ideologized ideas, and must be considered anew.
‘Nature does and becomes; nature is subject and materials at the same time’- the concept of Dia-gonis is conveyed a new relational shift within the homogeneity that nature is not simply an object or a resource, but that nature is also a living and active being like humans.The intention of the nature reference is to represent nature through materials (organic, artificial, man-made), encompassing both pure nature and the physical properties of man-made materials That is, material materials are nature, and nature is material. An example of this is the pattern represented by using a wood hand roller has the meaning of 'to even out the soil', which is expressed in the linguistic meaning of the word roller. From the perspective of the interconnectedness of all beings, the ecological crisis is not only a crisis of perception of nature, but also a need to reflect on the perception of all relationships, including the relationship between nature and humans, and the relationship between humans and humans.