MOPS
handmade mop forms - cotton, wood, concrete, interior trim paint
Constructed from 4,800 feet of cotton rope and 150 pounds of concrete, Mops is both a collection of domestic tools and a sculptural stand-in for ancestral presence. Each mop head is constructed through 120 loops of cotton rope, echoing handcrafts passed down through generations of women.
Gathered in multiples of three, their hovering handles suggest a task interrupted, as though the absent bodies who once performed these motions still linger in the room.
WHAT YOU LEFT ME
15 domestic objects & 5:51 color video, no audio
What You Left Me presents fifteen household objects arranged on a long table, with projected text naming each item and the weight it carries. These are not heirlooms of obvious value but ordinary objects that, when paired with language, become charged with expectation and the legacy of inheritance.
The installation sets object and text in tension, opening a space between the accepted and the resisted, the material and the meaning attached to it. In this friction, the everyday becomes something else: artifacts that echo loss, continuity, and the complicated ways selfhood is shaped by what is passed down. What You Left Me insists that inheritance is never passive but an active negotiation between presence and absence.
PAPER SKINS
Aluminum foil, glue, interior wall paint, aluminum rolling pin
Paper Skins transforms a disposable kitchen material into something weighty and enduring. One hundred and eleven pieces of foil were coated and painted white by the artist, her mother, and her daughter before being layered over an aluminum rolling pin, the form recalling a scroll or book. The process embeds the touch of multiple generations, each surface carrying traces of handling and care. What was once ordinary and throwaway becomes dense and permanent.
PERSISTENT OUTCOMES
Neon-flex lights, modular pipe scaffold, timing system
A scaffold displays a series of programmed lights that pulse in rotating sequences, representing qualities that move between grandmother, mother, and daughter. Inspired by epigenetics, the work treats inherited traits not as fixed but activated, emerging through influence, proximity, and repetition. Korman calls the accumulation of small, ordinary behaviors, “invisible repetition”, noting they pass through the maternal line, gradually shaping identity over time. The repeating light sequences render these subtle transmissions visible, translating an unseen influence into rhythm and form.
SCREEN TESTS
three-channel color video installation, each 4:22, no audio
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s films of the same name, Screen Tests presents three women seated before a white background under a single light source. Evoking archetypes – Grandmother-Mother-Daughter or Crone-Mother-Maiden – they embody positions that anchor a lineage, marking both persistence and change. Sitting alone in an empty room, they don’t share physical space, but they are connected by a sense of generational continuity, passing micro-expressions and subtle similarities.
SLINKY
16:50 color video, no audio
Slinky presents three suspended coils set in motion at intervals by a hand with red nail polish. Under a side light, their shadows echo across a white background in continuous expansion and contraction. Focus shifts between hand and object and then form and echo making meaning in what persists and also what recoils and resists. The mass-produced toy recalls DNA strands, evoking the way inheritance is inscribed and carried forward.
THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS
Neon light
Filled with noble gases and luminescent coatings that glow when exposed to radiation, these thin glass tubes harken to a particular period of historical signage that has largely been replaced by translucent plastics and LEDs. The vintage elements in Korman’s work often speak to eras inhabited by previous generations and Korman’s early associations with her mother, aunts and grandmothers. Here, the thin glass tubes of neon were carefully bent to replicate the looping letters of her mother’s handwriting. The beautiful glowing light represents an inner life, one inherited by Korman, through which she feels the weight of her histories and the enduring presence of her matrilineal luminaries.