Installation view of 《We Where》, Image provided by PKM Gallery.

PKM Gallery is presenting 《We Where》, a solo exhibition of Young In Hong from January 19th to February 26th. In this exhibition, 8 new artworks of a sound installation and a large-scale embroidery work, 2 photo-score series are exhibited. The artist highlights the subject of "communities", as she recognizes the loss of a communal space that premodern folks believed to be real(sacred areas in which the spirits of living organisms including animals, humans, and plants could communicate through a natural connection, and etc).

Her embroidery work and an installation work can be found at the main hall, as it almost acted as a gateway between the spiritual world and the material world. Moreover, there is a sound installation that invites a pair of grandmother-grandaughter elephants. And throughout the gallery, works in a variety of media, such as silhouette drawing, embroidery work, felt pieces, scores, and a musical performance references specific time and space from the postwar modernization period in Korea can be found.

About the artist

Young In Hong(b,1972) lives and works in Bristol, England, received a BA and MA from Seoul National University and an MA and a PhD from Goldsmiths College in London. She has presented a number of solo exhibitions and projects in Europe and Asia, including ICA London, Korean Cultural Centre in the UK, Art Sonje Center, and Art CLub 1563. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Korea Artist Prize at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and received the Kimsechoong Art Prize in 2011.

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