the opposite of emptiness is desire, 2024

Multi-channel video installation

two-channel HD video projection, CRT monitors, speakers

The rugged beauty of seas, cliffs, and abandoned beaches

frames a reflection on the shifting nature of desire —

how it is shaped, distorted, and hollowed out by the

restless architectures of the modern world. Cliffs stand as

thresholds to the unattainable, while abandoned shores

linger with the traces of connections lost or never fully

realized, and a blooming flower, fragile and slow to open,

disappears sooner than the time it took to bloom. Through

silent dialogue between landscapes and human absence,

the work drifts through a time when connection feels

constant yet hollow— where the pursuit of intimacy,

materiality, and fleeting moments never quite arrives, and

fulfillment remains distant.

By holding space for what is unspoken and unseen,

the work questions:

what if the opposite of emptiness is not fulfillment,

but instead, the endless chase itself?

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