Plasticity of Memory, 2012-2013

Last winter again, I had to open the mail box to remember his deathday. It was to see the date of the last email from him. It has been 12 years.. or 13 years. I never remember his deathday but my whole body remembers biting wind of crematorium. Winds create incidents that didn’t even exist with all kinds of loss and yearning and bring non volitional memories.

Involuntary forgetfullness and memory crosses the boundary of a blessing and a curse. Incidents that were not captured even with voluntary memory sometimes approaches at moments of the involuntary memory. This is because there is a sameness between the current sense and a sense of the past. When we think about the memory, it gets separated from material world and it doesn’t only exist as a notion. As memory obtains the place that enables to experience through body, it has an inseparable relationship with body.

Just like ‘plasticity’ that leaves a modified object a permanent set without going back to the original form even after removing an external power, memory also has characteristics of instability, imbalance, disharmony and fragmentation. With these characteristics of the memory, through a special makeup, which is manipulative and artificial process, intimate memories or trauma has been imaged.

In order to have participants, 20′s men and women through an online site have been collected. It was wondered that if today’s 20′s people who are struggling with school admission and employment have the same memories and wounds. Before shooting, between two subjects, ‘to you I hate to death’ and ‘to me of the day’ we let them choose one of them and write a letter. There is no receiver. By writing letters to their parents, friends, lovers and to them selves, they would encounter a special time. After writing a letter, the participants in front of the camera were still remaining at some times.

Han Kyungeun

[Solo Exhibition]
2017 ‘Invisible Vision’, KT&G SangSangMadang Gallery, Seoul

2014 ‘Plasticity of Memory’, Project Space The room (Total Museum), Seoul

[Selected Group Exhibition]

2017 ‘New Force of Photography 2017’, ‘Invisible Vision’, Goeun Museum Of Photography, Busan

2016 ‘Arouse yourself’, ‘Plasticity of Memory’, Hankuk Art Museum, Yongin

2016 ‘Kairos in Photography’, ‘Mookjung’,
Sangsangmadang Chuncheon Art Center Gallery, Chuncheon

2015 ‘Lies of Lies: OnPhotography’, ‘invisible vision_#1,#2′, Huismet de Hoofden, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2015 ‘Lies of Lies: OnPhotography’, ‘invisible vision_restoration and balance’, Total Museum, Seoul

2014 ‘Art of Heungkuk Moving Gallery’, ‘Übermensch’ , SEONHWA Art and Culture Foundation , Seoul

2014 ‘Body and Nature’, ‘Plasticity of Memory’, ArtspaceJ, BoonDang

2013 ‘TRIALOG’, ‘Untitled’, Goethe-Institut Seoul, Seoul

2013 ‘The show must goon_Singapore”, ‘Übermensch’ , Praxis Space, ICAS, Singapore

2013 ‘RoadShow 2013 BaekRyeong Island & Incheon’, ‘(沈)Sim’s crisis and recovery’ , Total Museum, Seoul

2013 ‘Photography & Photography’, ‘Mookjung’, KT&G SangSangMadang, Seoul

2013 ‘New Force of Photography2013’, ‘Mookjung’, Goeun Museum Of Photography, Busan

2012 ‘Homo Empathicus’, ‘Mookjung’, Breda Photo International Festival, Breda, Netherlands

2009 ‘Platform in KIMUSA’, ‘A little Difference’, Art Sonje Center, Seoul

2008 ‘melancholy’, ‘I am a tear-jerker’, Gallery Sogul, Seoul

2007 ‘Happy Puzzle’, ‘Happy Puzzle’, Art outside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

[Award]
2016 The 9th KT&G SKOPF Final Winner
2012 The 5th KT&G SKOPF Finalist