Dachal Choi is a New York based visual artist who was born in Seoul, Korea. As part of the millennial generation in Korea where the youth have a loose group consciousness yet still holds a strong need for public display and affirmation, her interest lies in the estrangements existing in a sense of community and personal identity. From Christmas as propaganda, to instant family, to rented friendships, her practice sews ambivalent values together to question instability and uncertainty within individuals and the societies they are members to.
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New Yorks
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After Eutheria
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The Spicy Statement
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Days You Need Love, Fortune, and Money
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Blue Christmas
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AQ625
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KRU
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Profile
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Sadness is Only Skin Deep
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Promotion
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Rent to Own
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A copy is often thought to always be deficient and derivative of its original so what does that mean for an individual whose life and citizenship is a copy? Supported by the Chinese government with the intention of urbanization and alternative tourism, Chinese developers have built fake American cities along with their respective landmarks and towns. Bianca Bosker, an author of the book, Original Copies, describes how Chinese Imperial emperors celebrated the conquest of rival kingdoms by building replicas of their palaces within their own capital cities. The current “duplitecture” trends stem from a deeply embedded Chinese notion of mimicry as a form of conquest. For the people and the cities that have lost their homes in the name of progress, a constant negotiation between the worlds they knew and their new import worlds are inevitable and perpetual. By weaving the stories and documents collected from Manhattan in USA and Manhattan in Tianjin city together, New Yorks questions a notion of home and our perpetual anxieties over a sense of belonging.
Yujiapu,