KNOTS – FOLDS, 2025
Textile installation. Cotton fabric. Dimensions Variable
Knots – Folds is a textile work made of sochang, long interconnected pieces of cotton cloth from Jane Jin Kaisen’s video works that have been reconfigured into a spatial composition. Delicate yet resilient, sochang traditionally formed an intricate part of both everyday and sacred life in Korea. A symbol of the human cycle of life and death, the sochang is used in both Shamanic and Buddhist rites of passage to represent the bridge between the world of the living and the afterlife as well as the struggles and burdens people carry in life. Knots – Folds alludes to the tactile handling and care of sochang as a ritual and embodied performative act where the practice of tying and untying, folding and unfolding, intertwining and knotting becomes a metaphor for how humans have shaped and navigated significant thresholds of existence.
Research assistance: Pauline Koffi Vandet, Soyoung Kwon. With support from The Danish Art Foundation