Trivial Pursuit:Teeny Tiny Information

"Trivial Pursuit" is an exploration of the boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary

Trivial Pursuit

"People failed to notice unfamiliar entities amidst their familiar daily lives."_The Screwtape Letter

The "Trivial Pursuit" project shifts its focus away from the main subjects in photographs and instead leads attention towards the peripheral objects in the background, using them to redefine the meaningless routine photos and turn them into something meaningful.

This project began as I organized my collection of everyday photos spanning approximately 15 years. Initially, I contemplated categorizing these photos' main subjects and whether some should be discarded. During this process, the photos gradually faded from my memory. However, upon revisiting them, I found that the trivial elements, rather than the main subjects, caught my attention and began to take on new meaning as they collided with my memories.

while I was revising my works, in the work "Collection: Horizon and Horizontal," instead of the female surfer who initially dominated the photograph, my gaze fixated on a hazy horizontal line. This led me to recall the description of the horizontal line from "Madame Bovary" as an enigmatic dual space, visible from a distance but, upon approaching, receding into the distance like an illusion.

 Accompanying each image in the artwork is a text-image, "The Text" consisting of objective facts and stories about the selected trivial objects. It is like a Find the Hidden Objects.

The act of collecting often feels tied to my psychological mechanisms. Anxiety, at times, reveals itself as a paradoxical process. This anxiety becomes the source of aesthetic value in the pursuit of freedom.

"Trivial Pursuit" is an exploration of the boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary, delving into what significance is revealed when "trivial things" return to each individual.