Bad Luck Washer
Eunsun Choi & Kyung-jin Kim

Bad Luck Washer (2021) is a collaboration with  Eunsun Choi and Kyung-jin Kim. It was made with red beans. Through the lens of Korean culture, it symbolizes an object that cleanses you and drives bad things out of one’s system ​(bad fortune, ghosts, illness, etc). Traditionally, at every end or beginning of the new year, Koreans eat a red bean porridge to cleanse themselves and to wish good luck for the upcoming year. “Bad Luck Washer” imitates a car washing machine and spins when a person passes by, activated by an attached Arduino and PIR motion detector. 



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Eunsun Choi is a multidisciplinary and conceptual artist born in Korea, currently living in Seattle. She is a graduate of the Hunter College MFA program and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in the DXARTS program. Recent solo installations and exhibitions include the 4 Culture, the Seattle Art Fair, Out of the Box gallery in Seoul, and the Thomas Hunter Project Space in NYC; her work has also been featured in numerous group shows in New York State, Queens, Brooklyn, and South Korea. Choi has participated in PLAYA Awarded residency in Oregon, NY+20 residency in Chengdu, the Sculpture Space Residency in Utica and the Hunter College Ceramic Residency. Her artist team, Jeju Island Artist Collective, was a recipient of the NYFA Queens Art Fund and City Artist Corp Grant in 2021.





Kyung-jin Kim is originally from South Korea. He received his MFA Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. Through sculpture, kinetic, and interactive sound installations, Kim inducts a sense of what cannot be known through palpable lapse and void. His work has been shown at various exhibition venues, including Gallery MC (NY), Korean Cultural Center NY, Governors Island Art Fair 2018 (NY), Equity Gallery (NY), Hunter College Project Space(NY), Vestibule Gallery (WA )and Kim has participated in residencies such as MASS MoCA Residency (MA), Flux Factory Residency (NY), Sculpture Space Residency program (NY) and RU Residency in New York. He received the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in the category of Architecture/ Environmental Structures in 2019. Additionally, Kim is a co-founder of the artist group called "Jeju Island Artist Collective" and curated the Flux Factory annual exhibition titled "Survival Tools for Artists for the Age of Ultra Anxiety" in 2021 at Plaxall Gallery, NY.



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