
These Decades that We Never Sleep
A ghostly white drum kit, encrusted with black wax, plaster, and organic matter, sits bound and entangled in thick maritime ropes, suggesting both ritual and ruin. Koh's addition of crushed insect parts, vegetable matter, and his own bodily fluids — blood and semen — transforms the work into a deeply personal and visceral relic, blurring the boundaries between the body, time, and decay. The piece pulses with a quiet, obsessive energy, evoking sleepless nights, mortality, and the haunting residue of lived experience.
- Medium
- drum kit, paint, ropes from a ship found after midnight, black wax, plaster, vegetable matter, crushed insect parts, artist’s blood and semen
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
December 10, 2014
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