Limit’s supposed to be the sky

Limit’s Supposed to Be the Sky
Stevie Choi

Limit’s Supposed To Be The Sky is the rekindling of a kitemaking and sculptural practice along the animating push and pull of growth in times of transition. Choi’s material investigation across bamboo, paper, and found objects are experimentations in relationality and imagination, counterweights to feelings of alienation and fragmentation. Deftly characterized materials and orchestrated forms take on lives of their own and find themselves with their arms outstretched and dreams dispersed: splintering bamboo doesn’t mind what you thought was possible; stains and punctures don’t mind what is feasible; soaring spines don’t mind the sky.

Stevie Choi (they/she) works across sculpture, drawing, and music. Interested in the lived impact felt from accelerated exposure to (mis)information oozing out of technoauthoritarian capitalism, they work to restore the spirit of objects. Objects are imbued with animate capabilities through hands-on methods, material exploration, and collaborative storytelling. These intentions counter the feelings of alienation and fragmentation surrounding material production contaminated by inextricable infrastructures of privatization, commodification, racism, and imperialism. 

Choi was the commissioned kite artist for Clockshop’s 4th Annual People’s Kite Festival in 2024. They facilitated and co-facilitated kitemaking workshops at LACMA with Dajin Yoon, Clockshop, Frieze London x Getty PST with Candice Lin, HOLA, Feminist Center for Creative Work with Silvi Naçi, BVCLT, Hiromi Paper, Los Angeles public libraries and schools. They hold a B.A. in Art from UCLA.

Blankie’s Demands (ICE out CBP out, More Play Time Now)
Hanji, bamboo, string, swivel, gauche, Blankie’s whiskers
17 x 12 x 1.5 in (43 x 31 x 4 cm)