DETOUR
This project brings skateboarding into the fine art world by treating it as both an art form and a method of challenging authority. For me, skateboarding is a creative language built through movement, style, repetition, risk, and the ability to transform space. By placing skateable sculptures in the gallery and inviting live skaters to activate them, the work connects skate culture to sculpture, performance, and contemporary art.
At the same time, the sculptures explore how movement is shaped by control, restriction, and surveillance. As they are skated on, the surfaces are gradually worn down, marked, and partially destroyed, allowing each interaction to become part of the work itself. Some pieces watch and record these encounters, turning live skating in the gallery into a performance of both freedom and observation. What remains is a record of struggle, resistance, and time.
The painted figures on the ramps and rails are built from painted halftone lines and harsh black and white shapes that resemble barcodes and printed graphics, turning the body into something caught between person, image, and digital trace. I want them to feel partially unrecognizable—scanned, circulated, and abstracted—while still remaining tactile, handmade, and vulnerable through paint. The work reflects on the commodification of images, bodies, and culture, while thinking about skateboarding as something that resists being fully fixed or owned. As the ramps are skated, the painted figures slowly wear away, allowing motion, friction, and time to erode the image and become part of the work itself.
