Sculpture
Size: 170x75x75 cm
Material: Metal, Stitched fabric, Plaster
‘Translation’:
Language is a verbal sign, yet it continuously expands another metaphorical meaning. As a bilingual, translation is an intersection of language and culture, constantly renegotiating between unknown and known. Language develops with a cultural context. However, it has established interactions hidden behind authenticity and unauthenticity. If monocultural boundaries could be expanded, translation is the way to be read.
Being bilingual revives or erodes the translation through an intercultural experience. It disrupts cultural originality, adapts to contemporary culture, and transforms authorial identity. It becomes a way with self-negotiation, self-construction, and self-certainty consistently.
The ‘Translation’ itself calls a crack, a slippage, and an opening that creates an uncertain, untitled, and unperceived identity.