Installation
view of 《The
Codex of Returns》 ©Chapter IIChapter II presents a group exhibition 《The Codex of Returns》 on view through August
14. Featuring artists Kam Min Kyung, Park Ji Won, Bae Yoon Hwan, Yoon Yu Seong,
Cho Ho Young, and Hoh Woo Jung, this exhibition highlights diverse artistic
approaches to recording repetition and performative processes through painting
and installation.
The exhibition is conceived as a reflection
on labor—both as a conceptual notion and as a tangible act—through a variety of
works. The paintings of Yoon Yu Seong and Hoh Woo Jung, for instance, generate
coherent forms through the accumulation of “lines drawn as trajectories.” These
non-narrative, non-directional images, focused on the layering of repetitive
actions, become records of the performance itself.
Installation view of 《The Codex of Returns》 ©Chapter II
Cho Ho Young’s work, composed of steel
balls endlessly rolling on a diagonally positioned conveyor belt, is grounded
in the symbolism of the precise point where the motor's force and gravity are
perfectly counterbalanced. This dynamic setup enacts the consumptive nature of
repetitive motion—a core element of everyday labor.
The paintings of Bae Yoon Hwan and Park Ji
Won explore actual sites of labor and the various conditions connected to them.
Scenes such as miners seated around a table, consuming soup made from freshly
mined gold, can be interpreted as a subversive satire of the capitalist system.
Installation view of 《The Codex of Returns》 ©Chapter II
Kam Min Kyung’s paintings, in which parts
of the body are rendered with a sense of heaviness, visually overlap with Park
Ji Won’s Controlled Landscape, where a figure stands
expressionlessly beside airport baggage-handling equipment in a mechanical
pose. Together, the two works seem to quietly evoke the reduced status of the
body—objectified and instrumentalized from the perspective of the means of production.
Participating
Artists: Kam
Min Kyung, Park Ji Won, Bae Yoon Hwan, Yoon Yu Seong, Cho Ho Young, Hoh Woo
Jung
