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00:30 The show is called Magazine and it's a play off my name, Maggie, and I thought
00:36 that it would be cool to, if I wasn't an artist, to run a magazine because
00:40 everyone is so talented, my friends, and I thought it would be cool if everyone had
00:45 a part of the magazine. So that was just the first concept of the show and then I
00:51 decided to break down the floor of the gallery space or in sections. So the main
00:59 center of the piece is a editor's desk and the wall works are pages of a
01:07 magazine and then there's also drawings and kind of like a graffiti style wall
01:16 piece and that's about advertisements and there's just a lot of elements in
01:22 the exhibition. I just wanted to have fun with it. I wanted to do what I wanted to
01:26 do, like what I was passionate about and what I felt in the mood and what just
01:31 came out of me. I think that's what makes the best art, if you're honest and real, I
01:36 guess. And then I really wanted to make a movie. It's a psychological thriller
01:42 called Pink Horror and I made it with my friend Heiji Shin and we asked little
01:50 people to be acting as children and then I asked my two friends to act as
01:56 my friends that were strangers. I asked them to act as a couple that were like
02:02 meeting on a first date but and really I wanted them to go on a date and we were
02:06 filming each first date and setting up all these like funny scenarios for them.
02:13 But it's about Peter Pan syndrome or Peter Pan complex. It's a psychological
02:20 thriller where these characters are in the woods and deep in their subconscious
02:26 and lost and I feel like after finishing the film I think it will change the
02:34 dynamic of the New York City scene. That's where I'm from and I'm excited
02:40 for everyone to see it. And then the space can be seen as like the woods as
02:46 well. It's just like a open space and there's what I love about the space is
02:51 that it echoes and the sound there's so many different sounds and they're
02:55 playing in the background so every corner has different sounds and it's
02:59 kind of like the dream house, Lamont Young's dream house, where every time you
03:03 turn a little bit you can hear different sounds and then the curtains create kind
03:11 of walls and I like to create different spaces in the exhibition.
03:18 It's good to be ambiguous and mysterious. I like to go to exhibitions
03:41 and figure things out for myself and see like I feel like when the viewers coming
03:47 up with their own thoughts it's like they're working on it's like more
03:52 gratifying or like when they when they actually figure something out I think
03:55 that's part of the show too. It's really abstract.
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04:18 When I was little my mom had a Chinese restaurant and I grew up in the
04:23 restaurant drawing on placemats and everything and my mom was interested in
04:28 art and we would take drawing classes at her friend's house, painting classes and
04:34 I would sit as a model for the class and then growing up my sister was in this
04:40 punk hardcore band in the 90s so she had she brought me to shows a lot and I had
04:47 zines and I'd wear her clothes and it was cool so I grew up with that and I
04:53 always wanted to be artists I knew it it's where I am most understood and
04:59 where I can be myself and the best where I could do well and which and it's the
05:09 thing that brings me the most joy and happiness I think that's important and
05:14 so I've just always been collecting going to like garage sales and collect
05:21 thrift stores and collecting things and making art out of like nothing using any
05:25 supplies I had like growing up I we had rice in the house so I'd use it as glue
05:31 like just making I like to freestyle and make things out of what is around. The
05:39 growing up making zines is kind of a foundation for a lot of the art practice
05:44 of my art practice it's about it's the easiest to call it collage in video I
05:50 learned one technique I didn't classically study video but I just
05:55 learned cut and paste and I just try to use it as much as and as hard as I can
05:59 and that's all you need like all you need is a paintbrush I just want to get
06:05 my message across or just be myself.
06:10 a few years ago I was
06:39 let's see there's a flower in 2017 I was in a group show speak locale curated by
06:47 Daniel Bauman I had created this movie this film feature-length mommy it's
06:55 about in short it's about my mother passed away and she I didn't know she
07:02 was always writing a book about the story of her life and through cleaning
07:07 the house I found it and I start and I didn't know she was meeting with like a
07:11 ghost writer to write in the library her English wasn't very good so I started
07:17 the film with the first part of her story in the middle is where we meet and
07:22 I finish it with my story so this was on view at Künstler Zurich in 2017 it was
07:30 really nice they Otto Bowen invited me back to work on the show but it's
07:37 funny because he didn't I didn't really know who he was and he didn't tell me
07:42 what it was for and he was like hi I'm coming to New York can we meet and I was
07:46 like I'm busy sorry and then I was like okay this is really important I let's
07:51 meet okay and then we partied and then it was like really nice and then that's
07:55 how the show began
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