OUM Jeongsoon

The Time of Folds is a 3-channel video installation that begins with the wrinkles and silhouette of an elephant, asking not what is “shown” but what is “becoming.” Each channel unfolds on a different sensory plane. In the first channel, Skin Becomes a Door, the wrinkled surface of the skin fills the screen, creating a sensory threshold where vision begins to act like touch. The second channel, Along the Folds of Time, reveals the instability of what is seen through the subtle tremors and misalignments of scanned images, blurring the boundaries between body and landscape. The third channel, Where the Trunk Was, a Universe, shows a receding silhouette that opens into space, transforming disappearance from an ending into a threshold of creation. Together, these sequences turn absence into the potential for transformation, trembling into a sign of relation, and disappearance into a condition of expansion, inviting viewers to reawaken their sensory perception. The Time of Folds transforms the immateriality and generative nature of digital imagery into a sensory experience. Through scanning, rendering, and rear projection, the artist presents the unstable surface and minute vibrations of the digital image as a living rhythm. The pixels in each channel do not simply reproduce form but continually generate and dissolve, expanding the notion of the image as a process of becoming rather than a fixed representation. The work employs digital technology not as a visual instrument but as a medium that reconstructs the structures of time and perception, visualizing the aesthetics of becoming in which disappearance and transformation coexist.