Kyoung eun Kang

Kyoung eun Kang

  • Performances
    • Woman Ironing
    • From This Blanket
    • Islands
    • Partners
    • Breathing in public
    • Happy Birthday
    • Blanket
    • weathervane
    • Gache
    • 희로애락
  • TRACES: 28 days in Elizabeth Murray's studio
    • Video performance
    • Exhibition view
    • Photos series
    • Watercolor drawings
  • 1402 Seok-Dong
  • Every Morning, Every Evening
  • Care Package
    • Care Package VII
    • Care Package IV
    • Care Package VI
    • Care Package I performance
    • Care Package V
    • Care package III_Eomma (Mother) performance
    • Care Package II performance
    • Care package installation
  • Video
    • Omaha Diary I
    • The Three Musketeers
    • Flower Man
    • Ghost Uncle
    • Lighthouses
  • Family poems
  • Photography
    • A stone from Korea (ongoing series)
    • A family bonsai
    • The Hidden Dimension (A&K)
    • A skin ball (exfoliated skin collected from my mother and me while scrubbing our backs)
    • A poster
    • switch
    • Self-portrait Father/Mother
    • Step
  • Drawings
  • News
  • Biography
  • Bibliography
  • Contact
Care package I
2017
Korean pharmacy envelopes, cardboard box
18 1/2x19x14 inches
“Care package” project is my on-going installation project.

For the “Care package” project I unpack the contents of care packages sent by my mother for the last 10 years and then edit and rearrange the sent objects– towels, dried anchovies, stones, bottles, pharmacy envelopes, detergent, hot pepper powders, creating still lives and landscapes from quotidian wares. These objects are displayed inside the shipping boxes, each flipped open and upright in diorama format to reveal the contents.

In collaboration with my mother, I create containers that carry time, care, and distance; that embody routines as well as relationships. It is the binding banality of family and history that tethers a person to the seemingly humble objects, simple tools, and subtle flavors in our lives.

All images copyright kyoungeun Kang

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