Venue: Audio Visual Pavilion (Seoul)

Audio Visual Pavilion presents Almost Certain, a solo exhibition of Eunjoo Hong, a graphic designer, from June 30 to July 26, 2017. In the exhibition, Hong extracts figures and objects that appear in 11 TV dramas aired since the 2000s, and brings them into the timeline she has established and the actual tempo-spatial zone. The timeline of the characters extracted from historical pieces and dramas of seemingly unrelated objects moves outside the frame of TV drama. Hong creates an arrangement of new objects, using the outline cut out from the moving line of individuals objects and figures mobilized to act out the narrative and emotions in the dramas.

The texts and images placed in the exhibition hall intersect actual objects researched and structuralized by Hong and the world within the monitor. Objects numbered from 1 to 150 are neither sequential nor in array are grasped as thin images lacking in the sense of depth through Hong’s line drawing. The figures are put on a new timeline based on another material in ‘almost certain’ state which fills up the gap among the materials she found. Interestingly enough, objects extracted from the timeline are envisioned through line drawing, and the existence of figures sparsely and 3-dimensionally moving figures on the screen of dramas is arranged in the timeline.

Hong complies and keeps tracks of minimum facts related to the birth and usage of objects after chasing them in the black line separating the background, time & space and the present. The objects within the texts and images configured by Hong seem very thin like a piece of paper weight only a few grams, but have several layers. The objects and artificial objects that can be endlessly arranged, including a storage box with flower patterns, a Tupperware container, a SMEG refrigerator, an IKEA shelf, a bag for garbage sorting, an iron pot and pottery purchased in the 90’s, a sculpture made of granite in a café, a baby mobile and a talisman seem as if nothing is decisive and everything is replaceable. And yet, all these most clichéd items might be the most certain ones.

Hong’s line drawing shows how the timeline in which the figures in dramas used or saw and the actual size of figures have collapsed. The tempo-spatial zone Hong arranges – the period when a drama was produced, the then ages of figures appearing in a drama and the period when figures grabbed certain items in their hands – intersects one another, sharing the past, inherent and future states of each figure. They can be restored because she has drawn the external ‘line’ of many objects for long. Meanwhile, adding on things on the outline can be made possible in multiple ways, because of the audience that believes that the next story will unfold only when a genuine desire – or simply a desire – of ‘fake’ people’ exists, and the sense of times manipulated accordingly.

This exhibition is supported by Seoul Museum of Art as a part of Emerging Artists & Curators Supporting Program.

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