Mijin Hyun

Situated Residencial Program | April 2019

Residency programme (April 2019)

Mijin invites us into a landscape-world, to follow our instincts and curiosity and to partake in the creation of meaning and experience through making a path through the space. The foil texture on the floor draws our attention to our own movements within the space, to our interactions with it, initiating a new level of engagement and participation in this alien world. Objects are assembled together in prosthetic combinations, obscuring their meaning and creating new imaginaries. This installation sparks our curiosity and urge to explore this disorientating landscape, which responds to the suggestions of the topography and character of the courtyard. The windows are used as a frame through which you can step; from the outside, one can watch others movement around the space as part of the installation. The play between exterior and interior, and the duality of observing and participating, provokes an awareness of the performative aspects of spatiality and our engagement with this.

BIO 

Mijin Hyun is interested in the situations around art, where the public comes into a space and interacts with a work. For this she uses various media such as sound, video or performance. She hopes to investigate the relationship between commodity and artwork, especially focussing on household items or interiors, such as doors, floors, furniture etc. She also connects the context of everyday objects and their use to the context of a museum or gallery. She also explores the architectural element, since spatiality plays an important role in the perception of the audience.