This issue of Reflections is published as part of Unresolve: A celebration of art practice as research in the South London Gallery’s Clore Studio, 6-8 December 2024.
Marking a moment of transition for graduating students, Unresolve explores the open-endedness of artistic research: What can we learn in the process of unresolving a problem or outcome? What would it mean to approach the world with a sense of unresolution? How can these creative methods shape and inform a living art practice?
This collection of essays invites you to join us in unresolving some of the key ideas, processes and materials that shape our emerging art practices.
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A Drop of the Unknown: Creating emptiness in printmaking
This essay pursues invisible existence, exploring emptiness through an experimental approach in the materiality of printmaking and subject transformation.
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Crowds, us
This essay explores societal isolation and invisible boundaries through illusionary spaces and figures, reflecting the collective impact of social divisions within broader structures.
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Diphylleia grayi: In-between
A reflection on thresholds through an intertwined practice of drawing and embroidery, exploring the relationship between line, body, intimacy and existence.
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Exchange Dialogues: Navigating Cross-Cultural Spiritual Pathways in Art
This essay reflects on my interview with artist Yin-Ju Chen, exploring the topics of cross-cultural art practice, shamanism, identity and AI, and the role of spirituality in contemporary contexts.
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Expressing Mother-daughter Relationship Through Installation Photography
This essay discusses the harm I suffered in the mother-daughter relationship based on the way my mother and I got along in the past as I created my work.
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Human and Nature: Rebirth, repair and new symbiosis
This essay explores the interconnectedness of life, death, nature, and pollution, examining how symbiosis in the Anthropocene reflects human impact on the environment.
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Interactive Narrativity in The Context of Participatory Arts and Power
This thesis investigates how interactive narrativity within participatory arts can challenge societal power structures and foster social change, drawing upon both theoretical insights and my own practice-based research.
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Modern Influences on Human-Animal Interactions
An exploration of how technology, climate change, urbanization, and media reshape human-animal relationships, ethical responsibilities, and societal roles toward animals and the environment.
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Modern Ruins
Reflections on sculptural practice-as-research through the latter half of 2024, and my rediscovery of ‘autoethnography’. This project began in the notion of ‘monumentality’.
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Polyphony of Ashes and Words: Whispers of Existence
This essay explores the intersections of culture, identity, and materiality in contemporary art through poetic reflections and installations inspired by modular structures, ephemeral materials, and dual cultural experiences.
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Presence and Absence
This podcast explores the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, focusing on love’s expression, cultural influences, and emotional dynamics.
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Sublime, Creating Environment for Meditative Calm and Encountering Landscape
This essay reflects my research on encountering landscapes, creating an environment for meditative calm and the idea of sublime.
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Tracing a Subtle Feedback
This reflection on painting reexamines the process of observation as an active form of interaction. It is supported by theories on perception, Art Therapy, and raises an inquiry on the categorical distinctions between symbolic dialogue and social practice.