These Works No Longer Exist (2025), various sizes, text interventions

"These Works No Longer Exist", as the title itself suggests, does not consist of conventional artworks accepted within an academic context. Instead, the project functions as a contemporary intervention situated in an unexpected setting.

Playful in spirit, the intervention raises a series of rhetorical questions: Why do invisible boundaries exist within one's own artistic practice? Why do so many students feel that the academic environment limits their potential, and why does it often standardize modes of expression within an increasingly diverse contemporary artistic landscape?

Alongside the legacy of contemporary minimalist art—which reveals little yet is capable of communicating much—the project also references Jens Haaning's "Take the Money and Run", commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark.

The substituted semester assignments, both sincere and subtly ironic, are reduced to minimal textual interventions set within expansive empty spaces. These open white fields invite interpretation, embodying not only artistic freedom but, more importantly, a quiet act of resistance and a symbol of the artist's autonomy over their own creative practice.

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