2024–ongoing | Fragility & Healing

Recent works introduce gauze, bandages, and transparent films, extending the archive into medical and bodily materials often treated as disposable. These fragile surfaces weave healing into the language of the discarded.

Fragility & Healing emerged from my ongoing exploration of discarded and overlooked materials. While earlier chapters of the archive focused on newspapers, postcards, posters, and cardboards, this series turns toward medical and bodily materials such as gauze and bandages — items usually considered temporary, fragile, and ultimately disposable. By reusing and reassembling them into installations, the works extend the archive into the realm of care and vulnerability.

Sometimes sewn, layered, or stretched across space, the gauze and bandages create constellations that suggest both rupture and repair. Their transparency allows text, color, and light to shift through them, turning disposables into sites of reflection. Within The Discarded Archive, these works acknowledge that what we discard is not only cultural residue, but also bodily and emotional traces — reminding us that healing itself can leave behind an archive.