정혜신 개인전
May 9 – 13, 2018
Flexspace, CICA Museum
The Space of Non-existence
Statement
Now what? After making a series of absurd drawings, I have to say something, anything that makes my work more interesting, intelligent, and engaging. It is fair to say that no one can possibly know what the hell I am doing here, but is there anyone who really cares? I wonder. I hope that I am not the only one who has a hard time writing her/his artist’s statement. However, it can be a great opportunity as well to explain what the art work is all about because my work dose not speak for itself. In fact, I am interested in the mysterious connection between image and word.
“Curiously, Baudrillard’s interest in the contemporary art object now takes a new form. It is, he suggests, ‘the simplified form of the impossible exchange’, a situation in which it is the void, the nothingness, which becomes obsessive. In this sense the central issue of modern art is how it materializes nothingness ‘and within the limits of indifference to play the game according to the mysterious rules of indifference’. ”
– Mike Gane
“How to materialize the nothingness” is one of my main concern and the nothingness I mean here is more in line with Bataille, Blanchot, Beckett, Nancy, and Agamben.
The methodological approach:
Collecting images and texts/ deconstructing images and texts/ the images and texts out of context/ fragments of images/ fragments of texts/ discontinuity/ disintegration/ the derailed/ detour/ happening/ opening/ chance/ possibility or impossibility/understanding or misunderstanding/ individuality or impersonality/ the schizophrenic/ appropriation/ the allegorical/ the paradoxical/ the contradictory/ the anarchistic/ the chaotic/ the idiotic/ the harmless/ the logic of absurdity and contingency
Reading the images and texts, playing with them, re-writing them, in short.
Even though I had nothing to make, I had to make something endlessly to materialize the nothingness in the form of visual art.
Dreaming of Mille Plateaux…
Haeshin Chung (b.1972, Seoul, South Korea) received an M.F.A. from (SAIC) School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. She participated in the Fifth Year Program (SMFA, Boston) in 2010 after receiving a diploma from (SMFA) the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2006. In South Korea, she received a B.A. from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, 1996. She has exhibited her works (drawing, printmaking, and creating objects, images) in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including galleries and museums in Seoul, Busan, New York, Chicago, Boston, Kitakyushu, and Ningbo. She won both select prizes in Space International Print Biennial in Seoul and Grand Art Exhibition of Korea in 2009. Currently, Chung is in the doctoral program in fine art at Hongik University.
Haeshin Chung 정혜신 “Detour” (2018)