“The Pond of Person A (2025) is a project that explores how we might reclaim or inhabit our subjecthood within an undefined entity that closely resembles ourselves. It asks: how do we take initiative and form a relationship when confronted with a presence that mirrors us throughout the process of subjective experience? The web space—often referred to as the "Sea of Data"—has become a contemporary site of self-reflection for users. As we know, the accuracy of this reflection has grown increasingly precise through algorithmic intervention.

The Pond of Person A constructs a web-based self-cognition through the artworks KISMET (2024) by Muhammad Toukhy. By navigating a virtual island and discovering a hidden pond, the audience moves as though surfing through a digital landscape. Upon finding and clicking on a "Mic-Bomb" within the pond, the artwork KISMET is activated, initiating a reflection of the audience’s action through both visual and auditory means. The Pond of Person A originates from the 2014 project The Lake of Person A by Bowie Bo Gyung Kim. That project explored multiple emotions evoked by a single object—an unknown lake in Warsaw, Poland. Inspired by the surface of that lake, The Pond of Person A reflects the varied emotional and perceptual responses triggered by another surface: the computer screen, or the “surface” of the web”.

Curated and co-created with Bowie Bo Gyung Kim.

Special Thanks to Rene G. Cepeda
and Constanza Salazar