Ling-lin Ku

Lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Artist statement

I identify as a multimedia sculptor working between sculpture, installation, video and sound. I use a broad range of processes from traditional hands-on approaches to digital scanning, rendering and printing to make artworks that reflect my studio as a playground and place for dreaming through objects and with the highest caliper. My sculpture and installation work have become a simulacrum of the world I live in. I was born an identical twin. As a twin my world began as a duality. My twin sister and I invented secret languages, imaginative toys, shared alter egos: Ongoing narratives in an exclusive world that still exists in our present day adult lives. For a long time I could not separate my own identity from that of my sister’s. To me, I was she, and she, me. Now as an adult I am naturally drawn to the subject of duality, its varied histories and within civilizations separate but identical things with uncanny incongruences, to hyperreality, the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from the simulation of reality. Digital fabrication allows me to shuttle between the virtual and physical world, between digital data and tangible materials. Using mostly local reference from food, body parts, architectures, yet through hybridizing, rescaling, mismatching, and proximating, I create objects that beyond conventional understanding of the physical world, where seemingly familiar objects can have alternative identities. In my recent projects I started to explore...

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