SOOJIN OH
SCENIC DESIGN

Amran’s Room is a stay-in performance based on the story of Amran, a Yemeni refugee who came to South Korea to escape the civil war in his home country.
The performance takes place in a small space in the city of Mokpo where Amran now lives and works. Each day, only one or two visitors are invited to stay in and around the space for twenty-one hours, experiencing the atmosphere of his daily life and reflecting on their own by encountering each scene designed for audiences to perform and interact.
 

“Pillars” by Soojin Oh are abstract sculptural forms that visitors encounter while staying in Amran’s Room for up to twenty-one hours. These pillars represent 'unfamiliar presences' and blur the boundaries between everyday life and the non-everyday, between the familiar and the unfamiliar. The sensations evoked by the pillars create a connection between the visitor and Amran. The surfaces of the pillars are wrapped in colors inspired by what Amran sees every day—the sky, the islands, and rusted containers at his work place. During their stay, visitors can move the pillars themselves, shaping their own environment. By engaging with this sense of ‘unfamiliarity’, each participant completes the narrative in their own way.

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carton with adhesive colored foil, 40x40x120cm, 30x30x100cm, 20x20x30cm, 10x10x15cm.