ArtSpaceHYEONG presents a solo exhibition “MOVABLE (IMMOVABLE) SQUARE” by artist duo Jin Dallae & Park Woohyuck, through December 15.

Jin & Park has been attempting to microscopically observe and reconstruct society and the cultural attitudes that define universal principles and phenomena in the visible world while demonstrating their positive intuition about the coexistent invisible world through diverse mediums.

Their work, which emphasizes the abstract and obsessive scene that eliminates clichés, stimulates individual latent senses and memories through the medium of empirical and comparative time, allowing the audience to look at the order, time, and space of the world with active thoughts and insight.

In this exhibition, Jin & Park evoke the square, the most fundamental unit, to transform the exhibition space into a square where diverse values collide and converge. Through this, the exhibition space becomes a platform embracing countless forms of diversity and a gathering place for communal values, ultimately reimagining itself as a new "square" that symbolizes our reality filled with uncertainty and fluidity.

The approximately 100㎡ square space is filled with low rectangular structures that welcome viewers. Two structures of varying heights are composed of black and red surfaces, each equipped with wheels that allow them to move—albeit within the confines of the narrow space, which limits significant movement. This square, embodying the dual extremes of "mobility" and "immobility," invites us to learn how to navigate it in unconventional ways. 

Drawing viewers into an unfamiliar mode of observation, the square extends the artists' ongoing exploration of variations in the frame. Beyond mere reinterpretations of the frame, it seeks liberation from the standards and norms embedded in structure and form, incorporating shifts in height, depth, and spatial dynamics as part of their broader experiment in distorting conventional frameworks.

“MOVABLE (IMMOVABLE) SQUARE”
2024.11.09 - 2024.12.15
Wed-Sun 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
ArtSpaceHYEONG
134, Eulgiro, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea

Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.