HOW TO TIME TRAVEL (2025)

I have been exploring of my interest and interpretation of time travel through these various images and objects that act as ways of time travel. I have become very interested in loops, cycles, beginnings and ends, our control of fate, and what it would mean to control/disrupt time.


An object that I’ve become consumed by has been an oscillating fan. Throughout my recent projects I have used the oscillating fan as a visual symbol of cycles and a reference to a time loop.


The words “return” and “go back” are common words used in pop culture time travel and became a question for myself as a time traveler. “Return/go back” evolved into a question for myself and viewers to reflect when we choose to use each word. While meaning the same thing, each has different connotations. Especially in the politicization of trans bodies, migrant bodies; the idea of return or going back to something assumes there being a beginning or an origin. I wanted this installation to question when we create the distinction between the two words, when and where someone/something begins. Insinuating that the end and beginning are omnipresent— that who I am and who I’ve become has always been there.


The images are a stop-motion like series that are of my mouth saying my name "Bonwoo Kuh". I was interested in visually capturing motions and actions that loop-- my name beginning and ending in the same shape.


That even within the loop— nothing can stop the fan and its path— I have been there from the past, I am there in the future, but most importantly I am here now.