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Gayoung Lee
Weighing Words-Coarse Fare
Digital C-Print and single-channel video, 20cm x 25cm, 1 hour 38 min, 2020
In Weighing Words- Coarse Fare, the process of figuring out a text and digesting it to become a part of my body is seen as an endurance performance where I write and eat 20kg of handmade hardtacks. As the old biblical allusion of God’s word as bread, our language is what we eat, chew, and swallow until some of them become part of us, and the rest is expelled.
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