Blending Boundaries
Common Gallery, Louisville, KY
January to February 2023
&
JCTC Krantz Art Gallery, Louisville, KY
March 14 to April 13, 2023
“The need for the divide between culture and nature is no longer relevant,
and the cyborg emerges from the blending of that boundary.”
– Donna Haraway —
Boundaries are lifted as requisite to identity. National identities require walls; personal identities require “essential” definitions. But we live in a world where technology – travel and the internet – makes walls obsolete. All borders are permeable; no identity is ever isolated or independent. I studied Western Fine Art in Korea and East Asian landscape in Louisville. My artwork, through its mode of abstract expressionism and through the blending of traditional concepts from Korean and America, blend these cultural identities to show that not just that they can co-exist, but they already exist in each other. Pure identification is an ahistorical project.
-Suyun Son-
