D.I - <Characters> — Hojin Lee

Characters

XR Installation & Single-channel videos, Cologne, Germany, 2023

Animation: Claude Wear, Jiwoo Kim, Hojin LEE
Sound: Hojin LEE
Technical Support: Tadaomi Kageyama
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Characters gives internal selves a space to exist both independently and relationally. The installation features a shared XR environment inhabited by multiple identities, as well as two accompanying single-channel video works—Thread LEE and Face KIM—which offer focused portraits of two distinct selves.

In the XR space, real and virtual mirrors confront the viewer with layered reflections of the self and others. Meanwhile, the animations explore the emotional logic of these characters in poetic, symbolic form.

Thread LEE
Single-channel video, 3min 5sec, 2023

Animation: Hojin LEE
Sound: Ting Chun Liu
Thread LEE cannot stop crying. Her tears form threads—delicate yet unending. As they accumulate, they overwhelm her, forcing her to find a way to process them in her own instinctive, bodily language.

Face KIM
Single-channel video, 3min 8sec, 2023

Animation: Hojin LEE
Sound: Ting Chun Liu

Face KIM’s body and head are constantly separated—especially during moments of emotional shock. The body endlessly searches for the head, but the character seems condemned to live in this fragmented state, gradually accepting it as part of her fate.