Exhibition Information

			Space55 presents double exhibition by Rhee Chae Eun X Jannice Chung from June 18 to July 18.


<Close and yet Far>

Rhee Chae Eun and Jannice Chung deal with a common topic of conversation when the physical distance from others is far, and the story of others who are close or far from me feels close and far at the same time. The fear raised by the epidemic eventually spread to discrimination and disgust and the solid illusion collapsed helplessly. While a number of festering social issues have exploded around the world, the public problem of Pandemic has brought us together as never before. The upcoming future is hard for anyone to predict, but we feel it is not long before we have to look at the world with a whole new worldview. The exhibition began when the two writers shared the feelings of anxiety that deepened when they were alone in another country. Physically separated from Korea and the Netherlands at the time of the exhibition's planning, they shared their thought online at times of ever-changing chaos, sometimes sympathizing with each other, sometimes at odds and sometimes consoling each other. Now that we are facing a gloomy future, we hope that this exhibition will be consolation and sympathy for someone.

Rhee Chae Eun has been tracing the dual meaning of the mixed image through the process of revealing the non-sequential concurrency of characters, objects, space and time. We want to find the familiar landscape of the past and the present and the touchpoints of real-time news such as unrealistic and lies to capture the changing contemporary society. In particular, this exhibition will feature an exhibition that serves as a tool to understand the current problems surrounding life and death. The author will reflect on the meaning of 'cut-off' through his experience of actually self-isolation for a month, and also present experimental installation work that reinterprets the experience into time, space, physical and psychological distance. Experience the collapse of familiar relationships between distance and time and pay attention to their artificial reestablishment. To this end, the author reconstructs past images and events of his family, who are closet to him, on a segmented canvas and uses them as a device to show time breaks. At the same time, it aims to show the lonely death of other who are far away from the media, expose the absence of empathy caused by psychological disconnection and call back human dignity.

Jannice Chung has been working on various issues faced by women within the framework of family. They paint, draw and sew on collage works using magazines or fabric and hanbok silk, which are commonly used at home. The curtain series on this exhibition is an old one in Koganechora, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, which will stay for about seven months in 2019. It started with a stay in the Tadamibang. Beginning with a reinterpretation of the old curtains received from the villagers in the room that kept the traces of the old red-light district, the delusions and visions that began with living in the old tatamibang actually caused inflammation and itching all over the body. The physical reaction is remembered as an event that eventually pressured the writer's mind and shook the writer's daily life at that time. Based on this experience, the Tadami series is intended to remind you of the meaning of the residential space and reconsider the meaning of the residential space whose functions have faded. In addition, I would like to deal with the uncomfortable truths that arise at a time when our daily lives have all collapsed and we are in dire need of a break from the outside world, physically close but psychologically distant, and a lost bond family is forced to coexist. Through this, I would like to think about the role function of families surrounding residential space in the current situation where the functions of society and paralyzed.

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