If I Stay
Here
Medium
Print,
Mixed media: Metal, glass
Room 5
Sophia Choi
Artist Statement
From Korea to Pennsylvania to New York, home was never a fixed place. It has always been something that can be left behind and rebuilt somewhere else. What was once a home filled with family and warmth now survives mostly in fragments—patterns, rooms, voices, and feelings that surface and disappear. Leaving that warmth behind and rebuilding in New York created a fracture between what home once meant and what it has become. Here, home is not inherited but constructed, often from emptiness. The work moves through this space of rupture. Unfinished structures, transparent materials, and broken surfaces mirror how memory and identity remain partial, layered, and unstable. What remains from the past appears as traces, while the present is shaped by scaffolding, reflection, and absence. Home is treated not as a place of arrival, but as a continual act of reconstruction—where memory and independence collide, and something fragile is always being built from what is left behind.
Description
<Between Closets and Skyscrapers> examines the transformation of domestic patterns into urban structures across a fractured surface. Empty spaces mark what memory can no longer hold. The work maps home as something constantly carried, altered, and reassembled.
<If I Stay Here> is A chair reconstructed from metal mesh, fragmented mirrors, and suspended water drops. Transparent and fractured, it suggests a place of rest that cannot fully hold. Reflections, gaps, and droplets trace reconstruction, vulnerability, and memory in motion.
February
6th & 7th
616 E 9th St
NY, NY 10009
If I Stay Here
Medium
Print,
Mixed media: Metal, glass
Room 5
Sophia Choi
Artist
Statement
From Korea to Pennsylvania to New York, home was never a fixed place. It has always been something that can be left behind and rebuilt somewhere else. What was once a home filled with family and warmth now survives mostly in fragments—patterns, rooms, voices, and feelings that surface and disappear. Leaving that warmth behind and rebuilding in New York created a fracture between what home once meant and what it has become. Here, home is not inherited but constructed, often from emptiness. The work moves through this space of rupture. Unfinished structures, transparent materials, and broken surfaces mirror how memory and identity remain partial, layered, and unstable. What remains from the past appears as traces, while the present is shaped by scaffolding, reflection, and absence. Home is treated not as a place of arrival, but as a continual act of reconstruction—where memory and independence collide, and something fragile is always being built from what is left behind.
Description
<Between Closets and Skyscrapers> examines the transformation of domestic patterns into urban structures across a fractured surface. Empty spaces mark what memory can no longer hold. The work maps home as something constantly carried, altered, and reassembled.
<If I Stay Here> is A chair reconstructed from metal mesh, fragmented mirrors, and suspended water drops. Transparent and fractured, it suggests a place of rest that cannot fully hold. Reflections, gaps, and droplets trace reconstruction, vulnerability, and memory in motion.
February
6th & 7th
616 E 9th St
New York, NY 10009
If I Stay Here
Medium
Print,
Mixed media: Metal, glass
Room 5
Sophia Choi
Artist
Statement
From Korea to Pennsylvania to New York, home was never a fixed place. It has always been something that can be left behind and rebuilt somewhere else. What was once a home filled with family and warmth now survives mostly in fragments—patterns, rooms, voices, and feelings that surface and disappear. Leaving that warmth behind and rebuilding in New York created a fracture between what home once meant and what it has become. Here, home is not inherited but constructed, often from emptiness. The work moves through this space of rupture. Unfinished structures, transparent materials, and broken surfaces mirror how memory and identity remain partial, layered, and unstable. What remains from the past appears as traces, while the present is shaped by scaffolding, reflection, and absence. Home is treated not as a place of arrival, but as a continual act of reconstruction—where memory and independence collide, and something fragile is always being built from what is left behind.
Description
<Between Closets and Skyscrapers> examines the transformation of domestic patterns into urban structures across a fractured surface. Empty spaces mark what memory can no longer hold. The work maps home as something constantly carried, altered, and reassembled.
<If I Stay Here> is A chair reconstructed from metal mesh, fragmented mirrors, and suspended water drops. Transparent and fractured, it suggests a place of rest that cannot fully hold. Reflections, gaps, and droplets trace reconstruction, vulnerability, and memory in motion.
February
6th & 7th
616 E 9th St
New York, NY 10009