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Geumhyung Jeong, Under Construction [work in process]. Photo by Kanghyuk Lee, 2023
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Curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp will introduce Geumhyung Jeong’s practice, key themes and processes behind the exhibition. The tour will allow opportunity for questions.
Geumhyung Jeong’s solo exhibition Under Construction centres on sculpture that is perpetually in a state of becoming. The artist creates mechanical bodies, an entanglement of metal and artificial human bones that move in halting and unpredictable ways when operated via remote control. These figures are presented in the gallery in dialogue with the parts and tools that will append them, along with videos of their development in Jeong’s Seoul studio. Each sculpture will be regularly re-attended by the artist in a series of performances. Process and result are indiscernible; the work exists as an exchange between human and machine. It is equally a physical form and an ongoing trial and error, i.e., Jeong thoughtfully constructing, amending and coaching the robotic beings as they attempt movement. In this, the project addresses the co-existence of human and machines, or even humans and objects, today.
About the exhibition
Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Jeong has participated in performing arts festivals internationally and her solo exhibitions in international contemporary art institutions include: Upgrade in Progress, FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena (2020); Homemade RC Toy, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2019); Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, Delfina Foundation, London (2017); Tate Live: Geumhyung Jeong, Tate Modern, London (2017); Private Collection, Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2016).
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Copenhagen – Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Immortality, The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (2019); APT9 The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2018); ANTI, AB6 The 6th Athens Biennale, Athens (2018); The Public Body 02, Artspace, Sydney (2017); The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2016); Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial 2015, New Museum, New York (2015); The Beast and the Sovereign, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (2015); East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Gesture, WKV Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2014); Burning Down the House, The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014).
In 2016 Jeong was the winner of the Hermès Foundation Missulsang Award and in 2014 of Zürcher Theater Spektakel Kantonalbank Acknowledgment Prize. In 2009 she won the Excellence Award for Alternative Vision at the Seoul New Media Art Festival and in 2007 Dokkebi Award at the Chuncheon International Mime Festival.
This exhibition is supported by The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism - Korean Arts Management Services, and the Henry Moore Foundation
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Copenhagen – Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Immortality, The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (2019); APT9 The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2018); ANTI, AB6 The 6th Athens Biennale, Athens (2018); The Public Body 02, Artspace, Sydney (2017); The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2016); Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial 2015, New Museum, New York (2015); The Beast and the Sovereign, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (2015); East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Gesture, WKV Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2014); Burning Down the House, The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014).
In 2016 Jeong was the winner of the Hermès Foundation Missulsang Award and in 2014 of Zürcher Theater Spektakel Kantonalbank Acknowledgment Prize. In 2009 she won the Excellence Award for Alternative Vision at the Seoul New Media Art Festival and in 2007 Dokkebi Award at the Chuncheon International Mime Festival.
This exhibition is supported by The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism - Korean Arts Management Services, and the Henry Moore Foundation
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06:30 pm
Thu, 24 Oct 2024
Lower Gallery
£7 Full Price / £5 Concession (inclusive of exhibition ticket price)
24 October, 2024
6:30pm
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