May 13, Cinéma du Musée; June 12–14, Goethe-Institut Montréal — Work in Exploration
Created by Mi-Jeong Lee
Every event has its photo zone, and every photo zone seems to wear the same plastic backdrop — a discomfort that stayed with me long enough to become a piece of its own.
In a closet, there is always an old, forgotten, unworn hanbok — a chima wide enough in its abundance of textile to hide a child inside its folds. I remember disappearing into my mother’s chima this way as a child, the fabric becoming a small world of its own. For Worn as You Touch, that same hanbok is taken from the closet and given a second life: its chima hung and dressed with the MAiFF logo and poster, becoming a reversible photo backdrop. As visitors touch it, the fabric wears further — each photograph capturing not just a moment, but the slow story of the cloth itself, worn into memory. The abandoned hanbok returns, embroidering each visit into its surface as a living backdrop.
Materials: Old hanboks, paper, bamboo sticks
Collaborators: Samantha Lui, Jacques Desbiens
Slow Forms 