The rights of things
2018


Installation
Hand-dyed batik on cotton (iron oxide, beeswax), steel pole

3,2 x 3,30 m

The rights of things, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney, Australia (top)
Fictional Frictions, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (bottom)

Four suspended lengths of dyed batik panels are inscribed with boxed text fragments that read as:

WHAT IT IS

THAT GAVE
A HOLD
SO STRONG

OF THE LAND

THE AIR OVER
AND EVERY
THING UNDER

ANY GROUND
SOIL
OR EARTH
WHATSOEVER

REALTY
REALITY

OF THE
PERMANENT
AND FIXED

THINGS REAL

Curators: Elyse Goldfinch – Artspace / Jenni Nurmenniemi – Gwangju Biennale
Photos © Artspace (top) / © Doyun Kim (bottom)