Swallowing Antarctica
Antarctica is an unknown continent frozen in a stillness that spans tens of thousands of years. I invite this vast, distant geological space-time into the most intimate and microscopic internal domain of the body: the lips.
The ice entering the mouth is no longer merely a cold physical substance; it is a secret archaeological site retaining the trajectories of time. Using body heat as its instrument, the tongue and teeth explore this unknown stratum, while the ice melts and cracks, reacting instantly to the body. This becomes the most intimate dialogue between the body and nature—a speculative archaeological excavation that fails to fully grasp its subject, ultimately dissolving and extinguishing it within the mouth.
The heavy, blunt sounds of cracking that echo throughout the exhibition space signify both a microscopic collapse within the mouth and the desperate cry emitted by a massive Antarctic glacier. Frozen still photographs, looping video works, and space-vibrating fracture sounds guide the viewer into that fleeting moment where a giant continent collides with a small pair of lips, only to vanish into nothingness.
