‘Is’

Heewoong Jin, Hyunji Kim
14.02-28.02.2015 

Space One presents its first exhibition of 2015, is. HeeWoong Jin and HyunJi Kim interpret space and objects as phenomenon, depicting them with interventions that produce a number of shifts in the audiences’ senses. The two artists express sound and visual language as a whole experience, with various interactions of multiple meeting points. 

HeeWoong JIN’s Is a Ghost Marching Next to Me? focuses on listening to what exists inside and outside of the space, especially that which doesn’t appear to interact with us. Using the windows, cracks in the walls, water cooler, doorstep, staircase and floors, he collects and amplifies their sounds in the space so that they coexist with the audience. HyunJi KIM relates different aspects of nature and the various sensitivities of humans.Stillness expresses the tranquillity of the life of the space, and the light of life is created in the interaction between the innocent sensitivities of the audience and the dark-as-lifeless space.

Artist Intro:

HeeWoong Jin graduated from Cheongju University with a Bachelor's and Masters in Painting. He started the (currently ongoing)mycheongjuchandeliercohab project group in 2011, managed the artist-run space Salon_Vit in 2013, participated in the Gwangju Barim Media Space residency program in 2014, and is currently an artist in residence at Cheongju Creative Arts Studio. HeeWoong JIN is carrying out an experimental process of discovering combinations of surrounding objects, the order and chaos within such combinations, and the aesthetic elements inherent in objects, and then creating new meanings through alterations in arrangement, enumeration and space.

HyunJi Kim graduated from the University of Suwon, where she majored in Sculpture, and received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University, UK. She currently lives and works in Seoul. HyunJi KIM’s work associates and expresses the beauty felt from nature and the sensitivity of human beings, which she then brings into the space of the city. She recreates space by using various materials from nature or made objects by combining them with light and other media, such as sound and image.