IS (INNOCENCE IN SILENCE, 2018)

The artist paired images of shirts with individuals’ obituaries found online. She portrays traces of a person and memory. The clothes usually represent the expressions of individualities and personality, however, in Innocence in Silence, the clothes are presented as a symbol of body’s vacancy and impermanence, which are empty of meanings pertained to features, age, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In addition, the obituaries represent perception of others and their influences on creating an identity. The artist asks viewers to contemplate impermanence and encourages to remove the significance we put on our body identity and others’ opinions to understand ourselves. 

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