'Avoid a void', Group Show
June 3th to 7th at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
More informations can be found on the website: http://thevoidcollective.creatorlink.net
This project was designed to explore and rediscover the value of intangible existence or living condition in contemporary society. Perceiving the material abundance as a paralysis rather than as a completion, this project uses artistic language to present the meanings from concepts such as "nothingness" and "void" that are opposite of the material abundance. In doing so, it seeks to recover the essential value of naturally. Rather than revisiting the philosophical meaning of concepts such as "voidness" or "nothingness" which have been constantly presented in the artistic world since the 20th century, this project aims to reinterpret the concept of "void" within the reality of the 21st century and to discover new concepts. In other words, this project emphasises the significance of the discovery of the void within the ordinary life and expand its possibility as life's behavior and attitude.
The young artists from Korea, China, and Japan are participating in this project. These artists have been living in the most modern societies and have commonly been interested in this theme. Even though they share a smilier cultural background and East Asian philosophy, each participant shares individual's unique interpretation of the given theme. The main program of this project, "Communal Archive," collects the void that is discovered in their lives in to a relay format and then shared with the public. The artists explore the possibility of expansion value within a community by discovering the void in their life and sharing their experiences. The medium of language and art composing the final product of this project elicits for the audience the sensations and thoughts that have been withdrawn underneath the intangible existence and condition of their everyday life.
The Communal Archive program uses "naturally, circularity, and fortuity" as a metaphorical collection method and completes the three artists' ordinary void as one cyclical and connected narrative. Through this process, individual and communal interpretations of various voids make this Communal Archive a communal artwork in itself. This program thus focuses on the quotidian discovery of the concept of the void, and it has been conducted three times. It has been produced in the form of images, and it has been introduced on the online website and installed invidious rest areas around Yonsei University.
‘Brewing paper’, 2019
A glass of cup, tea bag paper without leaf, and stone.
Installation view of the work includes other artist's works.
‘Plugged’, 2019
Concrete.
Eternal silence has not yet come.
‘My 0th Birthday candle’, 2019
Wax, wick, and candle stand.
There is no perfect sphere, but no perfect half and half. My first birthday would have been so greeted.
Installation view of the work includes other artist's works.
Installation view of work ‘Plugged’, 2019, and ‘My 0th Birthday candle’, 2019.
‘Rimless glasses without lenses’, 2019
Elements of rimless glasses with personal prescription lenses.
The lens without the rims, enclosing borders again explores the dialectic matters within the frame.
Installation view of the work includes other artist's works.
‘Between the winds’, 2019
Shuttlecock.
Riding in the wind, the conversation between them in the parabola stroke has been stopped. Invisible tranquility since then.
Installation view of work ‘Between the winds’, 2019.
‘A portion of air, and a mass of cloud’, 2019
A sheet of white paper.
These paper works are motif by the advertisement that attached on the street lights, telephone poles or booths, and the walls. We called it as "Octopus legs".
Sometimes they are offering coupons for bargain as well. People can easily ripped off the paper, and keep them if you need.
On the papers, it written as 'White'(Left) and '공기'(Air) in Korean underneath. Another paper 'Cloud'(Right) have been written as '한점'(A mass) in Korean.
Thoes papers are the archive of past few days before the exhibition, it actually attached somewhere around in public.
‘Archive of Void’, 2019
Disposable camera, and recycled paper.
Disposable cameras are placed on the floor of the exhibition space as objects that are freely recorded by the public. The output they take is the product of another archive in the future. Some people could perceive this as an archive itself, as an archived object or an archiving object.
‘Territory’, 2019
Founded objects, architectural model material, and temporal display mobile phone.
The smartphone LCD protective film and the molding material are opposing any respective areas, void.