Roots of the City
CURATED BY KYUNGSHIL CHOI 11 july - Auguest 15, 2026
The artist explores the cities through which she has traveled as sites where memory, encounter, and loss reside. In Naples, the garment of a clergy member encountered in a cathedral becomes a vessel quietly imbued with personal memory.
Patterns discovered while walking through the streets, a castle glimpsed beyond a hotel window, and fleeting scenes of everyday Neapolitan life observed through half-open doorways are all brought into the work. Through meticulous, repetitive hand-stitching, pigments mixed with marble dust, and materials that are often overlooked or disregarded, the artist reconstructs these fragments of experience.
Each surface becomes not merely a space in which memory is represented, but a site where it is gradually reawakened through touch, repetition, and material transformation. These works trace the lingering residues of presence. By returning to these fragments, the artist explores the delicate boundary between memory and absence, contemplating the sense of loss that accompanies both travel and the passage of time.
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INSTALLATION VIEW
Installation view, Root of The City at Ryan Art Gallery.







