Thank You, Plastic is inspired by the impact and disruption of everyday life during pandemic. For the past 2 years, dining in with friends, traveling with close ones or event gatherings have become seldom precious moments which could be a major test of any relationships, deep down, making us realize the importance.
Nowadays, plastic culture is ever-more present in engaging with our normal day-to-day activity. Whether it be a regular shopping bag, an unnoticeable food packaging - it exists everywhere. These are overlooked yet essential conveniences that many take for granted. Shedding light to plastic, this show acts a metaphor of the solid relationship that is affected by the separated circumstances.
Easily disposable, yet once lost, we notice the sense of absence because of the incompleteness. Like relationships that maybe forever gone, plastic is also very resilient. Is there still a chance that we can retrieve something that is lost and start over again?
About Stickymonger
Stickymonger is a New York-based artist whose giant murals transform ordinary spaces into eerie, dreamlike, parallel universes. Looking into the the large eyes of her animation-inspired subjects, the viewer is invited to explore the interplay of darkness and light, as well as the tension between innocence and fear, femininity and anxiety.
The artist’s early murals were created using hundreds of vinyl stickers, meticulously put together, piece by piece. The method served to create a sense that each image was melting and flowing together, like a river of ink down a gallery’s walls. This dark fluidity at the center of Stickymonger’s work was inspired by her youth in South Korea, where — growing up in a home next to her family’s gas station — the artist’s imaginative universe was formed while playing in the shadow of oil drums and staring into the reflections of dense black petroleum puddles.
Currently, Stickymonger has expanded her work beyond vinyl to include other mediums such as spray paint and acrylic. As her methods evolve and change, she continues to offer the viewer a portal into a surreal shadow-world of contradictions: as inviting as it is ominous, both delightful and disconcerting.
Instagram: @stickymonger