Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

(Source = Sky Plaza Gallery)

Exhibition view

(Source = Sky Plaza Gallery)

Exhibition view

(Source = Sky Plaza Gallery)

Exhibition view

(Source = Sky Plaza Gallery)

			Grave goods that had been well hidden from grave robbers for a long time were excavated. Typically, the discovered goods are highly treated as previous relics and treasures. Those goods, which stood by the deceased and mourned for them, are also always living together with people in their lifetime process. Even after they complete their job as the object of daily encounters, the grave goods always surround people’s lives. The people-oriented society treats these goods by focusing on the way they exist rather than the status of their existence. These goods, which are widespread as non-human beings - going beyond the presence of people - exist here right now.

Artist Hyun-ah Kang collected daily-life goods and turned their form into objects to rearrange them in the exhibition hall. Her intention is to treat the very daily life items well when they come into existence as archeological relics. This site - where the grave goods watching and mourning over the afterlife were discovered – reminds us of English philosopher Whitehead’s comment, “the object exists as its originality in response to an external stimulus by alternating and modifying itself.”

While focusing on the symbiotic ecological condition between the anthropocene and non-human beings in the global crisis, Kang shifts the focal point to thought about an object’s existence of plastic in the interests between humans and other agents. The exhibition 《Mourning Objects》 tells that it’s impossible to have a reality where the non-human agent of plastic as existence and phenomenon can be separated from humans’ act. The exhibition also voices hope for all to have time to think about what an object mourns over what stories objects deliver. ◼ By Su-kyung Hwang (Independent Curator)

(Source = Sky Plaza Gallery)