Ghost Touch
2022
Ghost Touch (2022) explores protective materials against COVID-19, specially transparent vinyl, anti-virus sheets that have been employed to prevent the spread of the pathogen. Although these barriers and personal shields have reduced the risk of infection, we have also, as a side-effect, observed the new definition of “body,” since people now consider and name individual bodies as "바이러스 운반체," best translated as “virus carriers.”
Out of fear of infection, myriad bodies became ghosts, not leaving our marks on other people or ourselves due to our rampant hysterical concerns. However, these ghostly bodies and translucent materials unintentionally deposit and accumulate vestiges. I believe that these indications can become characteristic patterns revealing people’s historical thoughts and feelings involving regulations, limitations, avidity, even free will.
At the end of the workshop, fingerprint identification powder was dusted on the shirts, allowing participants to behold the patterns left behind as vestiges of physical touch. By employing forensic science, participants could visualize the hitherto invisible marks they left behind, and those of others who fabricated and organized the workshop, as well as those who visited and partook in it.
Help and advise _ Dohee Kim
Photo_ Jeong kyun Goh
