Hyunyoung in April 2022, 2022

Single-channel video, color, sound, 1’39”

I believe that who I am now is the accumulated result of my past. Therefore, my present actions and outward appearance are, in themselves, an archive and a trace of what has come before. The background music of this video was composed from photographs I took between 2014 and 2021. Each photo was translated into a musical scale based on how “happy” I appeared in it, creating a soundscape that reinterprets my past emotional states. In contrast, the images in the video were filmed in April 2022, during the process of making this work. The gestures, appearance, and every present element captured on screen metaphorically suggest that they are shaped by the invisible accumulation of past emotions and experiences.

This work is both a question of where “the present me” has come from and a sensory archive of the unseen traces of time.