Postgraduate Show 2025
UAL Camberwell College of Arts
Installation
Video
This work reflects on the artist’s experience as a Zainichi Korean—a Korean living in Japan—navigating her identity between Korea and Japan.
It explores how identity is shaped by shifting boundaries of nationality, language, and place.
Inspired by the Japanese notion of Awai (あわい/間), the generative in-between, layered textiles transform family memories into a sensory space.
The work asks how one might live within Awai—the space of becoming.
Cyanotype, screen print, and hand-stitch on linen (841x 1189mm)
The installation consists of four layered linens that unfold the artist’s journey of embracing in-betweenness.
The first layer, printed with cyanotype, acts as an entry point and declaration
The second layer recalls the migration of the artist’s great-grandparents from Korea to Japan through faded Korean text and ancestral imagery, expressing memory and inheritance
The third layer merges a photograph of the ancestral home in Busan with Japanese text, forming intergenerational dialogue across transparency
The final layer overlays hand-stitches and red threads that weave fragility and continuity
Cyanotype printing process
The cyanotype printing process involves coating linen with a light-sensitive solution, placing transparent film negatives on top, and exposing them to sunlight.
As light turns into presence, blue images slowly emerge. Once rinsed and dried, the linen reveals traces of the declaration text.
Through this gradual transformation, the process itself becomes a metaphor for memory, emergence, and the relational space of Awai.
The video extends the installation into time and sound.
Combining archival photographs, fieldwork footage, and cyanotype processes, it follows a sequence of history, realisation, and acceptance. Layered voices intertwine with fragments of classical music, creating moments of resonance and pause.
Through editing, rhythm, and emotion are shaped into a moving archive of Awai, where memory becomes fluid and relational.
Process