Every society has the cultural authority that activates the society members to accept the dominant value system. And each individual secures their safety as members of the society by constituting their role, identity, desire and more, conforming to the dominant values. However, these individuals do not fully conform to the cultural authority. When individuals find their way of life or desire to be disavowed within the existent cultural system, they seek for the alternative realm to fulfill their desires rather than instantly succumbing to the system.

Whether it is temporary or permanent, these searches for the alternative realm are meld with the disempowered cultural blind spot, out of reach from the cultural authority. The ‘cultural blind spot’ formed with the assembly of individual’s search for blind spots are the creative realm where diversified cultures excluded from the dominant culture thrive. Moreover, the initiation of individual’s search for cultural blind spots is -distant from the so-called ‘deviation’- and a coping method against cultural authority or dominant culture system.

It is the utmost interesting fact that the process of these searches for blinds spots and the formation of cultural blind spots are invisible but the outcomes are visually revealed in our daily lives. Children discover their own ‘attic’, avoiding the eyes of the parents and homosexuals create their own community spaces in the city where homosexuality is prohibited. Nevertheless, even if it is the safest blind spot, it cannot be preserved eternally. In other words, the regulations of the cultural norm are neither uniform nor fixed that the occupation of ‘cultural blind spot’ cannot help but become temporary and fluid. Furthermore, it is the endless process of the individuals and the others’ looking out for blind spots.

My projects in relation to “looking out for blind spots” signify ‘cultural blind spot’ as the place where diverse cultures flourish, outside the dominant culture. Through the various accounts of individuals’ search for blind spots in everyday lives, Oh intends to reveal that cultural blind spot is not an ideological conception, but a reality of the ordinary life. As the cultural blind spot must take the form of flexible occupation, my projects possess site-specific features, reinterpreting or transforming according to the conditions of the exhibition and exhibition space. Additionally, “Looking Out for Blind Spots” is composed of individual entities and each project is interconnected as independent projects.