Cho Ho Young, From 60cm to 120cm, 2017-2019, Connected 12 chairs, metal, Dimensions variable ©Post Territory Ujeongguk

Cho Ho Young’s solo exhibition 《[Alert] Chewing Water Slowly Is Recommended》 addresses how we perceive our environment amid technological advancement. The exhibition is structured to allow viewers to observe, at a slower rhythm, ordinary objects that have become familiar under the guise of adaptation in the rapidly changing lives of contemporary individuals.

Objects that are no longer considered special in everyday life are examined by dividing them into three categories—entity, sensation, and relationship—and unfolding their interrelations as processes of exchanging movement.

Cho Ho Young, The Weight from youscale, 2020, Bouncing black plastic bag, 15x25x35cm ©Post Territory Ujeongguk

This exhibition marks Cho Ho Young’s first solo show. It is composed of decisive scenes that look back on works she had quietly cultivated beneath the surface while offering a perspective on her future practice. Cho Ho Young has organized her work around two perspectives: the relationships between objects, and the sensory operations of the body that perceives those relationships.

In the physical world, relationships between objects are determined by physical laws that are always already at work between them, while relationships between people are shaped by psychological distance. A closer look at the world of objects reveals a tense standoff—a state just before movement occurs—between seemingly static entities. Likewise, between people exists a sense of physical distance that naturally expands or contracts according to psychological proximity.

The works in the exhibition visualize relationships between objects or people as ongoing states in which positions and movements are continuously reset by physical phenomena and psychological distance. There, too, is your sensing and mis-sensing body, invited to experience the continuous states of objects determined by the equilibrium of physical and psychological laws.

Through each situation, viewers encounter the substance of sensation, become acutely aware of the margins of error produced by misperception, and confront the states they themselves enter when intervening in objects or situations governed by physical laws and psychological distance.

In one corner of the exhibition space stands a scale supporting a trembling object. The scale’s readings fluctuate, reflecting not only the object’s precise mass but also the impacts and rebounds added to the scale’s plate by the object’s movement. The numbers quantify a present moment that never becomes fixed.

The exhibition space thus becomes a kind of contact zone—like the plate of the scale itself—where one can confront even the margins of sensory error. Sensation, too, continually wavers like the scale’s markings. At times, bodily sensation differs from the object’s actual state, and this may be an illusion or a relative truth. You are invited to enter and consider which side your own sensation might align with.

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