Solo Exhibition · March 2025
Hacer un Bosque (Making a Forest)
Residencia Corazon — La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Two-gallery installation: Gallery 1 presented 'Universal Plants' — an immersive installation of imagined trees and botanical forms created from paper mache, clay, yarn, and dried tree materials. Gallery 2 featured 'Local Plants' — works made exclusively from materials gathered in La Plata, including natural dyes, local clays, and found botanical specimens.
An imagined forest brought here. Branches become trees, and trees gather in groups of five. The dye of palo borracho's pink flowers yields green on fabric; the platano's green leaves yield brown. Something from the memory merges with something imagined.
Place, memory, belonging — I rediscover them through local and universal plants. Reimagining the grid-like maps of La Plata, I found silk floss trees, false coffee trees, monkey puzzle trees, and false pepper trees. Seoul and La Plata share sycamore and rosemary. The red earth pigment from Misiones recalled Jeju Island's iron-rich soil. I froze plant-based dye into ice cubes and let them melt on canvas. I love being lost. In disorientation, new paths emerge.
Featured Works
- Palo Borracho Dreams — Natural dye on canvas
- Una Caminata en La Plata I (A Walk in La Plata I)
- Trees in the Forest
- Tree IV
- Tree V
- Colors from La Plata — Natural pigments from local earth
- Melted Colors — Natural dye on canvas with video
- Shadows of Forest
- Traces of Colors
Materials
Natural dyes (silk floss, false coffee, monkey puzzle, false pepper, sycamore, rosemary), Local earth pigments, Paper mache, Clay, Yarn, Plant-dyed ice cubes