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
A skin ball
2012
exfoliated skin collected from my mother and me while scrubbing our backs, archival inkjet print
10x10inch
I grew up in a small town in Korea, a homogeneous country. Every Sunday morning, our family went to the public bath, a Korean ritual. I remember the impressive moment when a collection of naked bodies, ranging from babies to old women, scrubbed and cared for their skin. They helped each other clean their bodies. Even strangers were welcome. My mother and I touched, squeezed, and smelled our bodies. I was confused about whose body was whose. The intimate public bath was packed and no one was ashamed of being naked. Soon, the bodies became one.

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