Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2014

AramHan
www.aramhan.com
Grain of Truth, digital c-print, 24x36 inches, 2012
Everyday, the pace of life gets quicker as it fills up with mindless errands
and tasks. In reaction, Aran Han makes slow work; she hand-stitches. It
calls for tremendous diligence and discipline. Though tedious and often
futile, she dedicates herself to patiently build a line, image, and surface,
stitch by stitch. The politics of invisible labor is a subtext for her
work. As an immigrant, she is interested in under-appreciated, invisible,
and Sisyphean labor practices. In solidarity, she uses her art practice
to symbolically mimic her mother’s labor as a seamstress. Additionally,
through the repetitive use of materials such as rice, denim scraps, salt,
and sweat, she pulls upon rich social histories and meanings, and utilize these to create a
personal mythology of materials.
Sweat Shirt, white and black rice stitched into a white collared shirt with cotton thread,
soaked in sweat, 27x24x2 inches, 2013
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