A string is a long, slender material used to bind or stitch things together. Beyond this dictionary definition, however, the work focuses on the meanings that string carries throughout human life.

Expressions such as the “thread of life,” the rescue rope in the Korean folktale The Sun and the Moon, and the colloquial “thread of sanity” evoke anxieties surrounding loss and disconnection. Yet string can also hold positive meanings, as seen in the red thread of fate, the blue ceremonial thread, and the thread chosen during a child’s doljabi ceremony. Moving between these contrasting meanings, string has quietly stitched together our lives—like the breath of an invisible bond or the lingering trace of forgotten words.

String: Entangled Light transforms string into a language of existence that embodies life’s choices and influences, connection and alienation. Through the work, it reconstructs the invisible narratives that lie between one life and another. The string is more than a simple conductor: glowing and connecting, it weaves different sensory currents—the flow of light and the flow of sound—into a single structure, simultaneously forming visual, auditory, and symbolic dimensions.

We are all strings quietly drawn toward one another. The tension running through them expands our contemplation of the metaphysical relationships between lives, and between the artwork and its audience.