Blinded Coincidence
One’s sense of the passage and lapse of time differs significantly from that of another. While time can be measured in specific and predetermined units — one minute equals sixty seconds or one day is twenty-four hours — the feeling is relative. Time is visualized through changing movements and the passage of time facing one person is continuously mixed with or separated from another person’s perception of time.
Taeyoon Kim captures in his videos those movements embodying lapses of time. Through repeated video loops, he transforms the time captured from a linear form to the circular. When irregularly circulating videos are played simultaneously, they generate coincidental encounters and collisions resulting in the changing flow of the underlying videos.
A large number of endless movements reflected on a rectangular screen are placed together with several sculptures of various shapes, colors, and textures. The sculptures in this exhibition were created through the accumulation of repetitive acts of labor. The coated colors of the sculptures appear rather artificial and not those that we come across in our daily surroundings. The colors were chosen based on the shade of lights projected on a monitor. The sculptures, ranging from short and tall vertical shapes, divide the space to form small and large clusters. These sculptures in turn become either a channel for the circular flow in the videos or work to terminate such flow.
The meeting of the incessantly moving elements together with the immobile element of the sculptural installation serves as the epicenter of yet another signal. This meeting engenders its own types of rhythm. The videos reveal an imaginary time, a state of infinity with no beginning or end, and when in dialogue with the sculptures embody some traces of the cessation of time’s progression. Like all other conversations, these do not always go smoothly. These are positioned far away from each other and are the result of collisions at a certain distance. Nevertheless, coincidental moments of communication between the videos and sculptures blur the distinction between reality and the imagined.
- Kyungmin Lee, Curator
Press release courtesy ONE AND J. Gallery.
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