Touch Grass, Eunsun Choi

To the main floor of the Seattle Art Fair, The Vestibule has sponsored noncommercial installation, Touch Grass, by Eunsun Choi. Choi’s field of artificial grass above glowing LED lights waves in response to visitors. The phrase “touch grass” comes from online culture; a gamer might say to a friend who’s been online too much, “You’d better go outside and touch grass.” Developed in 2023 for the fair, the installation expresses Seattle’s culture: at once obsessed with ‘nature’ and yet insulated by technology.

Eunsun Choi is a multidisciplinary, conceptual artist based in Seattle, New York and Seoul. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Washington in the DxArts Department. Born in South Korea, She is recently a graduate of the Hunter College MFA program. Her work takes many forms about focuses on her efforts to negotiate everyday reality and fit into her adopted American culture. She attended the School for Poetic Computation(SFPC) in spring 2018. She is part of collaborative team, Jeju Island Artist Collective. Her project "Radical Self Care for the Age of Ultra Anxiety," funded by Queens Council Arts and New York Corps. She received Sculpture Space Residency program in 2022. In fall 2023, her solo show, Cuckoo, will appear in Seattle’s Gallery 4Culture.