Irreplaceable Filter
Stainless, Glass, Motor, Resin
700*700*1270 (mm)
"Irreplaceable Filter" explores how easily people fall into superstition and pseudoscience.
The project focuses on the Korean tradition of Yaksu-teo, mineral springs believed to contain the vital energy of nature. Because the water is filtered through layers of rock and soil, it is often trusted as pure and healing, gaining symbolic meaning beyond its physical properties.
Yet recent water quality tests have shown that some of these springs are not as pure as once believed. This tension between inherited trust and measurable reality forms the conceptual foundation of the work.
Using hexagonal glass plates that hold water and the familiar pipes found at mineral spring sites, the installation examines how certain forms and structures become objects of faith. Filtration is reinterpreted not only as a physical process, but as a psychological one.
Through this work, I ask:
“Why do we easily believe in superstitions that lack scientific evidence?”
“Can you find comfort and stability in superstition while still confronting the hidden issues it entails?”