“Every Body, Come On! Yo!” Installation view at Museumhead Photo: Cho JunYong ©Museumhead
From May 11 to June 10, Museumhead, located in Gyedong, will present Ryu Hansol (b. 1989)’s solo exhibition Every Body, Come On! Yo! This exhibition brings together the artist’s work across multiple media, including video, sculpture, painting, drawing, performance, and photography.
The artist’s video works are influenced by gore films and comics, and she has been expressing the deformation, damage, and decomposition of the body in her works. The exhibition includes a series of ‘Human Body Disassembly-Show’ works, which began around 2011, in which the human body is considered as a collection of parts, each with its own individuality, and the body parts and internal organs are separated and exist separately. In addition, images of pierced torsos, broken heads, overflowing saliva, and scattered bodies with clear blood stains fill the exhibition space.
For the artist, the human body is not a ‘unity’ but a collection of individuals that can be scattered, broken, and decomposed. (2023), a new work presented for the first time in this exhibition, attempts to turn the human body inside out after it is broken into fragments. The form of the body, which rejects the given conditions and moves freely, brings a kind of liberation and pleasure. The body in the inverted world expands into infinite space.
Every Body, Come On! Yo! brings together images of deconstructed and inverted bodies, with no indication of ownership or affiliation, to throw a raucous party, creating a sense of disorientation from the tactile reality of blood-soaked bodies.
