As a member of the diversified modern society, individuals navigate through the situations they encounter through various personas. In addition, modern people belong to countless societies, the spectrum of values ​​is broadened, and the existing norms are constantly updated.

As a creator and a person living in modern society, Seunghwan Ji also faced various aspects of themselves and began to work in various fields through various media. The artist is an artist who continues to question and ponder about their identity, and they think of them not as a person with a singular identity but as a person with an inconsistent, fluid, and nomadic identities. Even if an individual has the same experience, they form a different identity depending on the individual's temperament or disposition, and through that identity, they are related to a new society.

With this background, the aspect of a modern person who is creating his or her identity is reproduced through objects in which various designs are merged. The process of forming the identity appreciated by the artist was replaced by the design method. They borrowed the part that shows the identity from the existing design, and neutralized it for a new combination. Due to the new reconstruction, the context of the existing design is reinterpreted, and it becomes a tool for another creation, forming a new context.

Multi-Contextual Replica

As a member of the diversified modern society, individuals navigate through the situations they encounter through various personas. In addition, modern people belong to countless societies, the spectrum of values ​​is broadened, and the existing norms are constantly updated.

As a creator and a person living in modern society, Seunghwan Ji also faced various aspects of themselves and began to work in various fields and through various media. The artist is an artist who continues to question and ponder about their identity, and they think of them not as a person with a singular identity but as a person with an inconsistent, fluid, and nomadic identities.

Against this background, the artist reproduced the self-portrait in which various styles were merged to create their own identities based on their experiences in various societies. De-stijl and Cubism styles were projected onto 2D and 3D object, and as they were merged again, the complex aspect of identity was expressed in multi-layers.

Multi Layered Self-portrait

As a member of the diversified modern society, individuals navigate through the situations they encounter through various personas. In addition, modern people belong to countless societies, the spectrum of values ​​is broadened, and the existing norms are constantly updated.

As a creator and a person living in modern society, Seunghwan Ji also faced various aspects of themselves and began to work in various fields and through various media. The artist is an artist who continues to question and ponder about their identity, and they think of them not as a person with a singular identity but as a person with an inconsistent, fluid, and nomadic identities.

Against this background, as a multi-disciplinary artist using a variety of techniques, materials, and media, they reproduced themselves through a toolbox that can contain a growing number of tools and has good mobility. This multi-identity is a phenomenon that not only artists but also most people living in the modern world experience, and it is a work with the purpose of sharing awareness of identity in the field in which one feels a sense of belonging.

Multi Persona Designer's Tool Box

Contemporary society and self-experience tends to sustain the illusion of people having one stable, consistent identity. But, against the backdrop of the increasing ambiguity and absurdity of a diverse modern society, we have identities as existing within a multiplicity to deal with the society or even with ourselves.

Struggling with the spatial and temporal dislocation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown, Seunghwan Ji undergoes many encounters with their own identities. The experience led to a deep consideration of the multiple identities through self-reflection.

For this reason, the designer has demonstrated their different personas through deviations of the Jasper Morrison ‘Plywood Chair’, archetype selected specifically for its perceived neutrality and ordinary. Each self-portrait object was designed to be inspired by defense mechanisms with ambivalent traits such as narcissism and self-hatred, dependence and independence, flexibility and denial, escapism and regression.

The project provides space and time for audiences to observe the subtle or evident changes they too might have experienced during their own life. And it also celebrates our naturality of having multiple identities.

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