wonderlandlust, mixed media, 2005



Self-portrait, plastic forks, yellow light, 2x2x5 feet, 2007

Soyeon Cho

Soyeon Cho creates utopian landscape installations using discarded everyday materials such as toy cars, household items and luggage. She chooses objects that used to have emotional connections to the owner. The works absorb from her physical surroundings and childhood dreams in an attempt to reconcile the two. The viewers are faced with questions as to whether they still believe that dreams can become reality or whether their dreams have gotten washed away like Cho’s materials. By revealing the hidden magic of mundane materials, Cho magically brings out the latent potential to dream once again. She rearranges the familiar to allow us for a moment to forget our adulthood, and embrace a childlike reality. To remember what it was to think like a child again.