Installation view of 《Temporary Landing》 (This is Not a Church, 2022) ©Kai Oh

The exhibition 《Temporary Landing》 at TINC juxtaposes the distinctive characteristics of an aircraft—both on the ground and in the air—onto sculpture and flat works, connecting the two media with the aircraft’s unique spatial properties. By capturing the common methodologies of the three participating artists, the exhibition creates a temporary pause, a suspended moment to rearrange the timeline of their artistic practices.

The word "landing" in the exhibition title holds a dual meaning: it refers both to the act of an aircraft touching down and to the flat platform between two flights of stairs. This dual meaning alludes to how the stair landings within TINC can themselves become a form of “landing,” supporting the concept of touch down.

The three participating artists—Kai Oh, Jang Jinseung, and Heo Suyeon—move between sculpture and flat media much like an aircraft that navigates between air and ground. Though their approaches to sculpture and flat works differ slightly, their collective display forms a formation flight of diverse aircraft, symbolizing an aerial missile that can break through artistic dilemmas and extra fuel to fortify the inertia of their creative processes. The exhibition space temporarily becomes a landing strip where their works can touch down and stabilize.

In this exhibition, Kai Oh presents five new works that juxtapose images of the "inside of the mouth" and the "underground." The mouth, toothbrushes, soil, and roots depicted in the images are portrayed in a slightly skewed manner, disrupting their usual state of interaction. In one piece, multiple toothbrushes are placed inside a single mouth, while in another, roots that typically remain underground are exposed, emphasizing opposing forces. Through this deliberate distortion, Oh destabilizes the safe, sensitive conditions of these two highly selective entities.

The five artworks, displayed at a distance from each other, are linked to different types of fixed structures, each highlighting the tension of gravity with varying weights. This spatial arrangement emphasizes the diverse gravitational interactions present in her work, conveying a sense of both balance and instability.

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