NOTE FOR AHN(安), GALLERY 175, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, 2019
Exhibition Note for AHN (安) was a two-person exhibition I organized with Ahn Jaeyoung, which began from the question of whether an individual could escape from being possessed — one of the mysterious symptoms containing elements of superstition from Korea. The exhibition, tracks how images attained from one’s superstitious beliefs relate to mythical and religious images, then recombines and deconstructs them. Under our collaboration lies the hope to contact invisible but clearly existing sensual phenomena, and to together overcome anxieties, interpreting phenomena as the destiny of artist/mediator.
Paying attention to the number of tattoos on Ahn Jaeyoung‘s body (the Chinese character 安, a blue diamond, an arrow, a red-haired Anne, Piglet, Mickey Mouse, and an epitaph of Nikos Kazantzakis), I interpreted each image as a charm to ward off Ahn’s anxieties. I then, researched mythical and religious imagery in order to strengthen the shamanistic narrative. Observing that the number 12 frequently works as important motive in the myths of many different cultures, I set Ahn Jaeyoung‘s birthday, December 12, as a central axis and tried to discover the references to god-related signs from the number 12. Combining the symbolic world of the image, language, color, and numbers from ancient myths from twelve animals that guards tombs, I created a chart for a system of faith and proposed a psychological space for a praying man, just like the secret connotation of the ancient character, 安
NOTE FOR AHN(安), GALLERY 175, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, 2019
Exhibition Note for AHN (安) was a two-person exhibition I organized with Ahn Jaeyoung, which began from the question of whether an individual could escape from being possessed — one of the mysterious symptoms containing elements of superstition from Korea. The exhibition, tracks how images attained from one’s superstitious beliefs relate to mythical and religious images, then recombines and deconstructs them. Under our collaboration lies the hope to contact invisible but clearly existing sensual phenomena, and to together overcome anxieties, interpreting phenomena as the destiny of artist/mediator.
Paying attention to the number of tattoos on Ahn Jaeyoung‘s body (the Chinese character 安, a blue diamond, an arrow, a red-haired Anne, Piglet, Mickey Mouse, and an epitaph of Nikos Kazantzakis), I interpreted each image as a charm to ward off Ahn’s anxieties. I then, researched mythical and religious imagery in order to strengthen the shamanistic narrative. Observing that the number 12 frequently works as important motive in the myths of many different cultures, I set Ahn Jaeyoung‘s birthday, December 12, as a central axis and tried to discover the references to god-related signs from the number 12. Combining the symbolic world of the image, language, color, and numbers from ancient myths from twelve animals that guards tombs, I created a chart for a system of faith and proposed a psychological space for a praying man, just like the secret connotation of the ancient character, 安
Installation view of Jan van eyck academie openstudios 2021 Still cut, The geometry of the hunter, Single channel video, 2021
What can be seen through the width of a pupil,
Jeonju city, SOUTH KOREA, 2016
Triggered by the false eyelashes I picked up from the red light district, I began the project in my contemplation of the accidentally narrowed distance between the site and myself, as well as a sex worker and me. Formally expanding the curves of the eyelashes, I made a long pathway that restrained viewers’ bodies through the passage, becoming a metaphor for the long history of oppression against women. The entrance begins from the low, narrow door of the pimp’s room, and the exit is the door of a ruined house of an individual.
RESEARCH ON 404km², SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, 2016
If you enter 404km² in the search box on google,
404km² is 0.4% of the Republic of Korea. (99,720km²)
404km² is equivalent to two-thirds of the area of Seoul.(605km²)
404km² is the total land area of the top 100 landowners in Korea.
(Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs’)
404km² is the total land area(23,708.7km²) of the Nakdong River basin.
(2008, Ministry of Environment,
“Preparation of advanced water quality improvement measures and feasibility study”)
404km² corresponds to the area of kejimkujik National Park.(Canada).
404km² corresponds to the area of Moheli National Marine Park.
(Mozambique)
404km² corresponds to the area of Gantrisch National Park.(Switzerland).
404km² corresponds to the area of Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary.(India)
404km² corresponds to the Espace Belledonne, northern protection
mountainous region. (France)
When you try to access broken pages, missing graphics, and some sites
that aren’t archived at all, the 404 error page (Error 404) appears.
The disappearing 404km² is ( ).
