Drawing Lesson

By: Jean Kwak International Foundation
First Year Bachelor
Drawing Lesson 2022 is a room-sized interactive
installation that explores ironic and complex power
relations between humans and nature (non-human).
The work consists of living moss being physically
supported by material- replicas of human bones and
flesh made of calcium and carbonate powder. Despite
the playful interaction of these humble materials, the
sculpture inevitably generates a mishmash of hierarchy
and tensions between these objects.
At the lowest sphere of installation, the work invites
participant to experience the power of marks and
drawings, relentlessly manipulating and reconstruct
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ing the relationship between humans and non-humans
through its logic. With the portrait image on a wall
of 16th century British philosopher John Locke, who
claimed intergenerational rights to own the natural
source by labor, the work creates a space to twist and
experiment with the deep-rooted concept of human
authority on nature.
j.kwak1@student.gsa.ac.uk