Twins

Hwang Sueyon’s work deals with what it is to live with a body. Just as if handling a body, she works and re-works her material for an extended period, tearing, beating, and transforming it to determine its final form. Simultaneously the object is gradually destroyed. The bodily movements of the artist collide against the material of the object and thus incorporate physical phenomena such as mass, power, weight, friction, and height. Hwang has spoken about what is revealed through her process in tangible flow: the harshness, strictness, and preciousness of the physical world that can be perceived via the transformation of material or the shifting identity of the object. Her most recent works are sculptures made by putting her body directly on the material. These sculptures come to have facial expressions and shapes. Hwang’s work focuses on history and the dynamic temporal aspects that her sculptures obtain. Their forms also share humorous moments, entering and exiting each other’s lives like strange creatures.