Machine with Hair Caught in It is a kinetic sculpture combining metal machinery with soft black hair. The device was designed to take advantage of the characteristic delicacy of hair, producing a movement in which the strands become tangled and untangled.

In Machine with Hair Caught in It, a repeated movement is produced as the soft and thin strands of hair tangle and untangle. The emergent movements and unfamiliar structure achieved through the juxtaposition of soft material with metal machinery evoke feelings of strangeness in the viewer. Through its creation of artificial, bizarre movements controlled by machinery, it illustrates a melancholy contemplation of the strange and contradictory things woven together by our reality.

Since 2015, UJOO+LIMHEEYOUNG have been involved in projects using everyday objects to create mechanical devices with odd and unfamiliar movements. Through these projects, they have developed mechanical devices that evoke feelings of discomfort and awkwardness – turning trees in midair, grinding and flinging rubber tubes, twisting hair, and so forth.
UJOO+LIMHEEYOUNG focus on the emergent, unfamiliar movements that result from combining machinery with ordinary, everyday objects such as cement fragments, hair, dead trees, red fluid, and silicone rubber.