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
Born in 1984
works and lives in Gimpo, KR
Education
2014 Ecole Nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, Post-diplôme, Paris, France
2013 Ecole Nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, DNSAP(MA) with congratulations of the jury, Paris, France
2008 Korea national university of arts, BA, Seoul, South Korea
Solo project
2017 Mask rental shop, Jeonju, KR
2017 Somebody Vs Something, Myeongsan Inn, Jeonju, KR
2016 What can be seen through the width of a pupil, Jeonju, KR
2016 Geology on 404㎢, Oh jaemidong Gallery, Seoul, KR
Selected Collective project
2024 A day made by hundred of pockets, Geumnarae gallery, Seoul, KR
2023 Zero1ne day_Habitat, S factory, Seoul, KR
2022 Posthuman: Storytelling for earthly survival, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2022 KFA22 Kunstenfestival, Aardenburg, NL
2021 Brain Mixologist, curated by Eva Posas, A tale of a tub, Rotterdam,NL
2021 Jan van eyck openstudios, The geometry of the hunter, Maastricht, NL
2020 Return to the Rhombicuboctahedron, with Gerda Blees, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2020 Independent art festival Second wind,
"Searching for witness", Jeonju, KR
2019 Note for AHN, 175 gallery, Seoul, KR
2014 possibles d'un monde fragmenté, Exposition des félicités, Palais des beaux-arts, Paris, FR
2008 A Room of One's Own, SPACE HAMM, Seoul, KR
Screening
2022 26th Ji.hlava international documentary film festival
Competition for experimental films, Special jury mention, Czech Republic
2022 A Hidden whisper, Kuandu museum residency online screening, Taipei, TW
Award & Grant & Workshop
2024 Support program of Solo Exhibition, Arts Council Korea
2024 Artience Daejeon, KR
2023 Zero1ne creator, Hyundai motors group, KR
2020-2022 Granted fellowship, Arts Council Korea
2017 Support program of Solo Exhibition, Jeonbuk Culture & Tourism foundation, KR
2016 Grant from Jeonju Cultural Foundation, Emerging Artist Award, KR
2015 Artist-Curator Workshop for emerging artists, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, KR
Residency program
2022 Asian culture center, Gwangju, KR
2022 La Becque résidence d'artistes, La tour de Peilz, CH
2020-2021 Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2017 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, TW
2017 Jeonbuk Art Museum creation studio, Wanju, KR
2016 Wanju art creation center Nu-e, Wanju, KR