• ESTHER M CHOI
  • About
  • •
  • Selected Works:
  • Blind Field (2024–ongoing)
  • Liquid Modernity (2023–2024)
  • Modern Societies (2021)
  • Two Incompatible Systems (2019)
  • Succession (2011)
  • New Brutalism (2010)
  • Second Skin (2006)
  • The White Maze (2004-2007)
  • Continuous Structures (2007)
  • Equivalents (2006)
  • Gemini (2006)
  • •
  • Selected Writing:
  • Perspecta (2024)
  • Harvard Design Magazine (2023)
  • PIN-UP (2022)
  • Deem (2021)
  • E-flux Architecture (2021)
  • Radical Pedagogies (2020)
  • Sustainability's Image Problem (2019)
  • Reaper (2017)
  • Hippie Modernism Interviews (2015)
  • PIN-UP (2015)
  • Artforum (2015)
  • Hippie Modernism (2015)
ESTHER M CHOI
About
•
Selected Works:
Blind Field (2024–ongoing)
Liquid Modernity (2023–2024)
Modern Societies (2021)
Two Incompatible Systems (2019)
New Brutalism (2010)
Succession (2011)
The White Maze (2004-2007)
Second Skin (2006)
Continuous Structures (2007)
Equivalents (2006)
Gemini (2006)
•
Selected Writing:
Perspecta (2024)
Harvard Design Magazine (2023)
PIN-UP (2022)
Deem (2021)
E-flux Architecture (2021)
Radical Pedagogies (2020)
Sustainability's Image Problem (2019)
Reaper (2017)
Artforum (2015)
Hippie Modernism (2015)
Hippie Modernism Interviews (2015)
PIN-UP (2015)

Blind Field draws its title from Camera Lucida, invoking the notion of meaning that lies beyond the immediately visible. The series features animistic sculptures constructed from the very apparatuses of image-making, gesturing toward the industrial systems and material economies that underpin photography. Central photographic materials—such as plastic—are arranged in compositions that echo historical references, from Lilly Reich’s industrial material installations to the flowing drapery of Renaissance painting, which Aby Warburg described as moved by an “imaginary breeze.” In this context, Warburg’s metaphorical breeze becomes a stand-in for the unseen forces—economic, political, and cultural—that shape not only photographic technologies, but the images they generate within today’s image economy.

Aer Aurae Venti, 2025

Archival pigment print

20 x 26 in. (unframed)

Edition of 5, 2 AP

Winged Victory, 2025

Archival pigment print

20 x 26 in. (unframed)

Edition of 5, 2 AP

Elegy, 2025

Archival pigment print

20 x 26 in. (unframed)

Edition of 5, 2 AP

Sui Generis, 2025

Archival pigment print

20 x 26 in. (unframed)

Edition of 5, 2 AP

Blind Field draws its title from Camera Lucida, invoking the notion of meaning that lies beyond the immediately visible. The series features animistic sculptures constructed from the very apparatuses of image-making, gesturing toward the industrial systems and material economies that underpin photography. Central photographic materials—such as plastic—are arranged in compositions that echo historical references, from Lilly Reich’s industrial material installations to the flowing drapery of Renaissance painting, which Aby Warburg described as moved by an “imaginary breeze.” In this context, Warburg’s metaphorical breeze becomes a stand-in for the unseen forces—economic, political, and cultural—that shape not only photographic technologies, but the images they generate within today’s image economy.

Aer Aurae Venti, 2025

Archival pigment print

20 x 26 in. (unframed)

Edition of 5, 2 AP

Winged Victory, 2025

Archival pigment print

20 x 26 in. (unframed)

Edition of 5, 2 AP

Elegy, 2025

Archival pigment print

20 x 26 in. (unframed)

Edition of 5, 2 AP

Sui Generis, 2025

Archival pigment print

20 x 26 in. (unframed)

Edition of 5, 2 AP