Jerry Ahn [Exhibition opening]
Forms and lines from the Korean marriage registration form, the Korean birth certificate, and the birth certificate from Stuttgart, Germany come together to create a drawing
and grow into a sculpture.
‘Things so abstract that you can’t even be sure they exist. Things like love.
Things that grow as you touch and feel the forms and lines.
The dazzling us, stretching beyond 21 by 29.7 cm the international A4 paper size.
The place where I was born and raised and the place where I chose to grow and be born anew
and the countless A4 sheets lying between them.
On an unexpected day, when blinding sunlight strikes the body like anesthesia,
sensations loosen, then stiffen again, catching in the throat. Clumps.
A clear yet nauseating pain lodged inside the body.
But invisible, or without words, so even I am unsure if they exist—these clumps of memory.
And yet, the strength of bone, the force of muscle, can be felt even in a handshake.
A body that exists so undeniably, and the traces it leaves behind
and the skeletal frameworks of society that feel unreal.
Our bodies, our twenty fingers.
If we touch, if we draw
what will grow and become a body, become a mind?
How can the things that come from us undergo cell division?’
Work1.
Rumors, 2025
Pencilc on A4 Paper
Drawing Series
Work 2.
Two People, 2024
Papier-mâché clay on steel wire
dimension variable