“Hydra Square” Poster image ©The Reference
The Reference presents “Hydra Square”, a
solo exhibition by Wonhae Hwang, selected for the Seoul Museum of Art’s 2024 Emerging
Artist Support Program, through July 21.
"Hydra Square" considers that the
excessive, multisensory kineticity that can only be perceived in the non-places
that exist throughout the city, and the specialized nature of the space,
dictate a sense of reality in which the boundaries between the real and the
unreal are blurred, which we encounter every day in our current lives.
In this exhibition, the artist traces the
trajectory of the membrane that has been the basis of her work. She searches
for the mobility formed by symbols and nets before the formation of the
membrane between space and the body in the non-places scattered in the city,
and imagines a situation where the trajectory is physically relocated again and
unfolds as a space away from the place, and transfers it to the space and
screen.
The artist's works in this exhibition
reflect the image of the airport, a representative non-place. The grandeur and
speed, the trajectory of the airplane, images from angles that cannot be seen
except from an airplane, airport symbols found on the internet, traces that had
a clear direction but have been overlapped and disappeared, and the continuous
sound of the wheels rolling - these elements converge in paintings centered on
a circle, a form that seems to absorb all stories.
Interspersed with installations that recreate
the fluid flow of movement in the surroundings, the various layers of membranes
intertwine to create a plaza where hierarchy has disappeared.
