Something Physical - Ireland
This
body of work was the result of a 3 month residency at The National Art
Studio Changdong, re-worked and installed at The Signal Arts Centre in
Ireland. The Irish exhibition of this work contained additional works (miniatures, 'I am one', 'connect') that were produced in Ireland
on reflection of the Korean residency experience.
The Signal Arts Centre exbibition of this body of work invites us to
enter a space for contemplation and reflection on both our environments
and ourselves. This installation encorporates elements of spaces from
the cityscape of Seoul and other similar urban surroundings to
construct romantic and affecting images on space and time, through a
combination of video and installation and using a hybrid of the natural
and the synthetic found in these urban settings, (trees and telegraph
poles), in front of a video image, to link the virtual space of the
video to the physical space of the viewer.
All kinds of historical information and trace are intentionally omitted,
just leaving the image with silhouette as an avatar, allowing us to
feel a sense of timelessness, detached from everyday life. In this
timeless space, the viewer has the experience of navigating through the
hybrid objects that interrupt their path, provoking an awareness of
their own physical presence within this space. It is this blending of
the virtual video space and the viewers' physical space in the gallery
that completes this installation.
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