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Re-love lighting

Design / Mootaa, Eunwhan Cho, Taiho Shin

600 x 700 x 800 (mm) , 900 x 900 x 350 (mm)

PE-foam, Used Furniture

Photograph / Mootaa

The original function of objects, which have been used for a long time, is reduced as time goes on. However, the objects have a new value as a meaning
of more than objects to an individual. We proposed how to love such objects in a different viewpoint and wanted to have a meaning differing from recycling. Chairs, used in reality in ‘RE_LOVE LIGHTING’ series, are expanded to space through light. Through such deformation, we intended to have potentiality as products of artwork.

 

오랫동안 사용해온 사물은, 시간의 경과로 인해 본래의 기능은 축소되지만, 그 사물은 어떠한 개인에게는 사물 이상의 의미로서 새로운 가치를 가지게 되기도 한다. 우리는 그러한 대상을 다른 시각으로 사랑하는 방법에 대해 제안하고자 하였으며, 이는 재활용과는 다른 의미이기를 원한다. RE_LOVE LIGHTING 시리즈에서, 실제 사용하였던 의자는 빛을 통해 공간으로 확장된다. 이러한 변형을 통해, 우리는 artwork이 제품으로서의 잠재성을 가지도록 의도하였다.

'RE_LOVE' was created in two processes of work under the same title. For these processes, we collected old furniture and clothes etc, which we actually used, and we intend to propose method to love these things again. To love the things again means to add another function to them. To love the things again here needs be distinguished from recycling. Though the old and ragged chair in my room will gradually lose a great deal of its original function, it will hold prevalent value over other new ones through the time and space shared with me. This chair may carry an image of myself on it, stretching leg to the floor, or elaborately cherish a reminiscence of a time when I conversed with someone. Sharing of such time and memory is also a matter of intimacy between me and the thing. However, regrettably enough, we repeatedly replace the thing for a new 'goods' unconsciously in pursuit of the 'function' it provides. The relationship between a thing and people should be understood as an expression of 'self love' on oneself as a result rather than personifying a thing. The intention is that the act of loving a thing again is engraved as love of one self about the time and space, and such love be proposed as methodology through 'RE_LOVE'.

Re-love project는 동일한 제목의 두 가지 작업으로 진행되었다. 이 작업들을 위해서 우리는 우리가 실제로 사용하였던 오래된 가구와 옷 등을 수집하였으며, 이 사물들을 다시 사랑하는 방법에 대해 제안하고자 하였다. 사물을 다시 사랑한다는 것은, 이 사물들 자체가 이미 ‘재화’로서의 기능 이외의 의미를 가지게 되었다는 뜻이기도 하다. 여기서 이야기하는 다시 사랑하기의 의미는, 재활용과는 구분되어야 한다.

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