23. 06. 30 - 07. 29 ㅣPyo Gallery
CONTENTS
CHA minyoung《Vibrating Suitcase Cells》
Minyoung Cha's works have the power to invite the viewer to take a step closer. At the center of Cha's world is a "bag," and if you look closely at the small window inside, you will see another space, a real microcosm that the artist wants to express. We need to pay attention to the vast story that this extremely small space holds.
A bag is more than just an object, it's a personal universe. Tastes, habits, and thoughts are embedded in them, and depending on where you need to go and what you need to do, your bag will change and its contents will change. The artist, who has been working with bags for a long time, has expanded his work to a planetary level, like a living organism dividing and multiplying its cells, in order to break away from the existing fixed work.
Minyoung Cha's work is like a cell, growing and changing with its own motility. The materials, images, and process photographs and videos she gathers for her works are often accidental and beautifully sculptural, but they disappear behind the finished product like cells that die after the work is done. Just as cells replicate and divide, Cha's work, which uses manipulation tools and color filters to edit digital images, is a "bag cell" that constantly exercises and grows in order to break free from familiar working methods and routines.
The Inclined Horizon series, which stands out from Vibrating Suitcase Cells, is based on the idea that in the distant future, a change in the inclination angle of the Earth's rotation axis will cause a crack in the system and humans will no longer be able to stay on Earth. In particular, the representative work, Probe 23-R, offers a glimpse of the Earth's glacial landscape through a circular window. In addition, Vibrating Edge suggests the slightest signs of vibration and collapse hidden in a sturdy bag through the sound of seismic wave data collected by NASA's Insite rover by deploying a seismograph on the surface of Mars, which is converted into sound and visualized with LEDs that flicker or change in intensity depending on the frequency of the sound. In this way, Cha's "bag" comes across as a symbol of humanity's future.
More than a material object, Cha's bag is a universe, a private space that contains a person's unconscious. The "undecided ambiguity" of the "bag cells" makes us look forward to how his work will grow and change in the future.
DATE
2023. 06. 30 - 2023. 07. 30
TIME
9 a.m. to 18 p.m.
Closed on Sundays
LOCATION
18-4, Jahamun-ro 5-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
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23. 06. 30 - 07. 29 ㅣPyo Gallery
CONTENTS
CHA minyoung《Vibrating Suitcase Cells》
Minyoung Cha's works have the power to invite the viewer to take a step closer. At the center of Cha's world is a "bag," and if you look closely at the small window inside, you will see another space, a real microcosm that the artist wants to express. We need to pay attention to the vast story that this extremely small space holds.
A bag is more than just an object, it's a personal universe. Tastes, habits, and thoughts are embedded in them, and depending on where you need to go and what you need to do, your bag will change and its contents will change. The artist, who has been working with bags for a long time, has expanded his work to a planetary level, like a living organism dividing and multiplying its cells, in order to break away from the existing fixed work.
Minyoung Cha's work is like a cell, growing and changing with its own motility. The materials, images, and process photographs and videos she gathers for her works are often accidental and beautifully sculptural, but they disappear behind the finished product like cells that die after the work is done. Just as cells replicate and divide, Cha's work, which uses manipulation tools and color filters to edit digital images, is a "bag cell" that constantly exercises and grows in order to break free from familiar working methods and routines.
The Inclined Horizon series, which stands out from Vibrating Suitcase Cells, is based on the idea that in the distant future, a change in the inclination angle of the Earth's rotation axis will cause a crack in the system and humans will no longer be able to stay on Earth. In particular, the representative work, Probe 23-R, offers a glimpse of the Earth's glacial landscape through a circular window. In addition, Vibrating Edge suggests the slightest signs of vibration and collapse hidden in a sturdy bag through the sound of seismic wave data collected by NASA's Insite rover by deploying a seismograph on the surface of Mars, which is converted into sound and visualized with LEDs that flicker or change in intensity depending on the frequency of the sound. In this way, Cha's "bag" comes across as a symbol of humanity's future.
More than a material object, Cha's bag is a universe, a private space that contains a person's unconscious. The "undecided ambiguity" of the "bag cells" makes us look forward to how his work will grow and change in the future.
DATE
2023. 06. 30 - 2023. 07. 30
TIME
9 a.m. to 18 p.m.
Closed on Sundays
LOCATION
18-4, Jahamun-ro 5-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea
More information is available through the links below.
Go to the homepage
Article | Pyo Gallery Photo | Pyo Gallery
© yoohee.seochon
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to yoohee.seochon with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.