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Heaven and Earth

Yoon, Hyung Min2015

Gyeonggi Creation Center

Gyeonggi Creation Center
Ansan-si, South Korea

This work reinterprets a phrase from the Tao Te Ching, “人法地, 地法天, 天法道, 道法自然 (A man emulates the earth, the earth emulates the sky, the sky emulates the Tao, and the Tao emulates itself, Chapter 25.)” Through the reflection of the water, it reveals that the relationship between 天上 (the heaven) and 天下 (the earth), which would seem to have the opposite meaning, are not indeed divided into two, but rather, they are indivisible. As our ancestors paid attention to the shadow of the moon reflected on the water while thinking, the surface of water becomes a place of contemplation when reflecting light. That surface becomes a boundary of the sky and the earth, and it is thus a borderline be­tween this life and the afterlife.
In past years, my work dealt with the mean­ing of translation and the process of recontex­tualization. Through transplanting various forms of texts and images into a new environment, I intended to uncover the paradox, at times, ob­served in our usual way of understanding things. Originally, the English version of the work Heav­en and Earth was created first. The work Heaven and Earth commissioned by a Chinese garden in Chinatown located in Vancouver, Canada is a site specific work, in which the sentence “EARTH, REFLECTS, THE, HEAVENS” is installed upside-down on a pond, flexibly reflecting itself on the water.
Unlike the work Heaven and Earth, where texts are formed horizontally by flexible move­ments, the work 天上天下 (Heaven and Earth) vertically standing becomes a border where the two worlds meet. And the vision, through which this work presents heaven and earth as one uni­ty, is a process of consolidating the spirits of the Seongam reformatory in the history that might still be lingering at the border of the two worlds.
In the process, natural conditions, such as the tides, rain, wind, and so on, also adjust the screen - the water - while constantly changing the form of the reflection.

Details

  • Title: Heaven and Earth
  • Creator: Yoon, Hyung Min
  • Creator Nationality: Korean
  • Date: 2015
  • Solo Exhibitions: 2015 SunMoon Gallery Hyundai Window gallery, Seoul 2014 The Book of Jests Grunt Gallery, Vancouver Magic Hands Wumin Art Centre, Project Space Wumin, Cheongju 2011 Heaven and Earth Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver curated by Susan Ma
  • Physical Dimensions: w1.7 x h1 x d0.17 m
  • Group Exhibitions: 2014 Far Away So Close Access Gallery, Vancouver, curated by Kimberly Phillips Taehwa River Eco Art Festival Ulsan, curated by Hong SoMi & Lee MinYoung New Hero Blue Square, Seoul, curated by Daewoong Ahn 2013 From Nature Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, curated by Sophie Brodovitch Whoever Can See Through All Fear Will Always Be Safe The Crying Room, Vancouver MONOMANIA II Trench Contemporary Art, Vancouver Trial & Error Schleifmulgasse 12-14, Vienna, curated by Denise Parizek The Moment of Transition Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest / Aktionsradius, Vienna Little bit of history deleting Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, curated by Isin Onol 2009 Tele.bridge 2009 Television12, Seoul, curated by Sukwon Kim Creekside Open 2009 A.P.T Gallery, London, selected by Jenni Lomax The truth of Contradictions and Exceptions Television12, Seoul artists curated project
  • Education: 2008 MA Fine Arts Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK 2007 Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts Chelsea College of Art and Design 2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
  • Curatorial & Special Projects: 2012 Translation Services 221A, Vancouver 2009 The truth of Contradictions and Exceptions Gallery Television12, Seoul
  • Type: aluminum, acrylic, LED

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