A Travel Kit: a practical guide for a ritual, 2021

 

This practice is to explore getting dressed with the semantic approach inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead (1995) which describes guiding one through, the experiences that the consciousness has after death the interval between death and the next rebirth.

《A travel kit: a practical guide for a ritual》 is a bag containing items necessary for a post-mortem journey. Seohee Kim has always imagined about death and the afterlife, and among them, the Buddhist worldview contained in “The Tibetan Book of the Dead (1995) (Padma sambhava)”, which she believed most, was brought into the bag along with handcrafted fabrics. Her objects in the bag (multi-heel socks, three necklaces, elephant amulet, ceremonial clothes, sealed pockets and instructions on how to use them) are the world after death, reincarnation or rebirth. Eternal freedom, evoking the imagination of the act of wearing in the process.

 

A travel kit: a practical guide for a ritual, 2021
Wooden box, wood, wool, steel, cotton yarn, cotton fabric, paper
43.7 x 33.5 x 33.5 cm