Void Space: 정상현

In the gallery tour proposed by Sang-hyeon Jeong, he takes us through various works and other meta-spaces of the exhibition with a pink frame. We can only see those spaces through the framework he presents. Just when we are getting used to the worlds that are shown within his frame, Sang-hyun Jeong begins to slightly touch that frame. It tells us that what we are seeing is what happens between the inside and outside of the frame, what happens in the interlude. Eventually, the world outside the frame gradually invades the world within the frame, and an accident occurs that causes the frame to collapse. Can we return straight to reality through this sudden but light accident?

 

There is another stage framework that we must go through. Let's call this the Red Brick Observatory. This observatory resembles a stage in that we unfortunately cannot climb up and is high besides. However, we can fully guess what is happening inside the observatory from outside and below, thanks to devices that kindly project the images seen by the cameras on our behalf onto the wall. As if break time when the play is put on hold and the curtain is drawn, we are wandering around the observatory where observations are put on hold. Although it is not an actual observation, we are involved in the observation process in another way.

 

Like Pharmacon, the mold is a poison that can lead to death, but it can also be a cure, like a medical elixir. Beings within a frame may seem to be trapped there because of the frame, but in fact, it is the frame that nurtures the worlds within it, allowing it to grow and increase meaning. If Sang-hyun Jeong has so far developed the world within through frames, this exhibition, Another Space, is a work that declares an interlude between those frames. An interlude is not an empty space between two plays, but a real moment in which the play is suspended and the relationship with reality is presented more clearly. Like a line of escape that runs along the border and finds its way out, Sanghyun Jeong's work is now extending to us another space and time of such interlude.

(Written by Sooyoung Lee)