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Burden no.41, Acrylic & Acrylic filler on XPS foam, 1303 X 1303 mm, 2024

It appears solid on the outside, yet it yields easily to the slightest pressure of a fingertip, leaving visible marks. This material, known as Isopink—commonly used as a building insulation material—holds within it not just function, but an emotional landscape. As insulation, it blocks the cold or heat from outside, quietly occupying the hidden spaces within a structure. Cold in itself, it exists to protect others.

2025-02-15 12:20 Bulguksa Temple, Reactive bronze paint with patina activator & Acrylic filler on XPS, 1303 X 970 mm, 2025

Through this ordinary material, artist RC explores the psychological structure of modern individuals. Rather than merely working with the material, they examine the context in which it functions and the social conditions that surround it—capturing the hidden parallels between material and emotion, society and the individual.

Burden no.34, Acrylic & Acrylic filler on XPS foam, 1200 X 900 mm, 2024

Isopink is mass-produced in factories to uniform specifications, minimizing individual variation for the sake of efficiency and functionality within the industrial system. Likewise, modern society often demands conformity rather than difference. Yet this material reveals its uniqueness only when pressure is applied—leaving behind a distinct trace. It mirrors the way people, through experience, relationships, and suffering, eventually shape their own stories.

2019-08-18 19:04 Tour Montparnasse, 600 × 900 mm × 4 pieces (1200×1800mm),Reactive bronze paint with patina activator & Acrylic filler on XPS, 2025

This exhibition uses Isopink as a metaphor for the state of all of us—easily wounded, yet ultimately resilient; erasing ourselves while creating space for others. Through the study of material, careful observation of society, and the poetic use of substance to express human emotion and existence, RC’s perspective gives new meaning to the familiar and lends stories to the seemingly trivial.

Burden no.32, Acrylic & Acrylic filler on XPS foam, 1121 X 1121 mm, 2024

In the end, this work poses a single question:
Under what kind of surface are we living right now?

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