This is Not a Real Pipe

CV * solo show

2026
CHZTS
Time Machine III
from one state to another I-II

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*Spacetime Travel II (Hall 6)
*Spacetime Travel II (Hall 7)
*Time And Machine

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An Absent Place
Pneumatic Pendulums (castings)
Phasianus (constellation)

2023
*Spacetime Travel
Time Machine II
Mechanical Heart
Automatic Rendering
Radio

2022
Little Dokkebi Site
The Fallen Tower
Transposition
Genesis Trilogy
This is a Real Pipe

2021
*Seeing with Closed Eyes
*Gaze into Eternity
Cabinet of Phasianus

2020
*Open Studio Brooklyn
Dreamwalker’s Paraphernalia

2019
Undiscovered Identity
SAAP
Somewhere Home

2018
Your Presence Within What is Independent From You
TAKELSD
The Symphony of Time Machine

2017
Pendulum Project
The Synthesizer

2016
LOOP

Title: This is a Real Pipe
Date: 2022
Medium: mirror-polished stainless steel, pneumatic pipe fittings, wood, and hanji
Size: 62 x 43 x 6.5 cm

This work draws its conceptual origin from René Magritte’s iconic painting, “The Treachery of Images,” which declares, “This is not a pipe.” In contrast, this piece asserts the opposite: “This is a real pipe.”

Here, the pipe is not an image or metaphor, but a tangible, functional object—one that can be physically removed and used. Moreover, it is crafted from pneumatic materials that I frequently employ in my sculptural practice. By embedding the literal object into the frame, the work challenges the distinction between representation and reality, suggesting that art need not merely point to essence—it can become the essence itself.