double sunrise, 2025, 180x 30x30 in, vinyl siding, sunrise alarm clock.

In double sunrise, a gallery column is reconfigured into a split temporal structure. Exhibited at The Korea Society—an institution suspended between nations, languages, and collective memory—the work features two synchronized artificial sunrises programmed to the time zones of Korea and New York. Enclosed within the vinyl siding typical of suburban American architecture, these lights are visible only through narrow apertures placed above eye level, requiring viewers to strain their gaze upward toward a schedule calibrated to another elsewhere. The work exposes the friction between institutional time and lived duration. Immigration is governed by clocks, paperwork, and socio-economic schedules, yet the displaced body persists in an alternative temporality sustained by memory and repetition. Within this specific gallery, the temporal rupture aligns with the institution's own identity as a site of diplomacy and cultural translation. The vinyl siding—the standardized façade of a promised arrival—seals tightly around a light that refuses to synchronize.