Mire Lee

the way things fall apart?in my wildest dreams is comprised of different resources, mechanical instruments, pieces of sculptural material, and moving images. The work begins out of an interest in pleasure and liberation, the feelings that often arise when a logical narrative collapses, being fragmented into parts of the material world. It is ultimately an experiment to represent these processes and results in a visual and formal language. A stage set, pieces of different textures, speeds and forms, and the scale of movement present themselves—their bodies—to the audience. The work consists of two sections and the two separate parts of the title represent different aspects of the work. The first section is basically an homage to The Way Things Go by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, which had reputation for its serial images. 

The second section shows an uncontrollable sleep state and a restless dream in which all linear or chronological narratives are disrupted. In these dreams, things develop very quickly, abruptly turn to a tabula rasa state, and again change to a completely different phase. Here, past, future, success, failure, modest hope, and ambition are not distinguishable from each other, and despair becomes something pleasurable or even liberating. Individual structures of the work represent diverse perfomances such as quiet descending, excessiveness, exaggeration, and incomplete operation while developing a pseudo-narrative of its own. A part of the work exists to function the other way around in some cases; for example, some sculptural parts become a sculpture itself, while bolstering another sculpture. Another part of the work due to its limited materiality. Overall, the work is an amalgam of tumultuous dream images, workshop labor, and daily theatrical acting. The process of individual fragments’ integration into one entity represents a small universe where conceptual and material dimensions operate on the same level and one folds in upon the other.