조혜진 Hyejin Jo Solo Show
May 30-June 28, 2015
Cake Gallery, Seoul
Planning: Haena Noh, Design: Matter and Non-Matter
In 1972, the Dong-A Ilbo publishes a series that introduces foliage plants in earnest. The Kyunghyang Shinmun in 1981 introduces plants native to the subtropics in eight times. Subsequently, articles reported in the 1980s include “Having a pleasant atmosphere with flowers”, “蘭盆栽 (ran bonsai)-enjoying while drinking coffee”, “as if growing fresh leaves”, “室內 with flower dividers (indoor )”, it provides a guide on how to care for tropical plants and how to decorate using plants. Articles from the late 80s to 90s show the revitalization of economic activities related to plants, such as rental and recycling, such as “large flower pots are popular” and “celebration pots are recycled”.
The above-described news report describes a part of newspaper data collected mainly on tropical plants in [Temporal Tropic]. The chronology of tropical plants examined in newspaper articles shows the changing meaning of the tropical plants through the ages. Looking at the changed social and economic topography works as a mirror to recurse the location and context of tropical plants at the present time. The exhibition seeks to touch on the variation of tropical plants caused by the Korean-style environment and the collective unconsciousness contained therein.
[Temporary Tropical Temporal Tropic] traces the situation in which the influx of exotic species called tropical plants is settling in the Korean context, revealing the plants that have been deformed in the process, the lifestyle underlying them, and cultural phenomena. According to the artist, the way to experience the tropics is encountered in the process of growing plants by creating a garden in an apartment life. In this way of life, tropical plants go through the process of being transformed into a small form tailored to the room and being consumed. The work begins with the appearance of a tropical plant unfamiliar when it comes out after fulfilling its purpose in terms of use. Wreaths that were temporarily used and thrown away at congratulations and condolences, and tropical trees that were treated for interior decoration and then abandoned.
Doshiru, a leaf of a congratulatory wreath and a plastic decoration, can be found in the leaves of a tropical plant, palm tree. Congratulations and condolences are used for groundbreaking ceremonies, weddings, sixtieth birthdays, opening ceremonies, and funeral ceremonies, and the usage time is temporary, ranging from 30 minutes to 72 hours*. Wreaths attached to anniversaries or events like this are part of a culture that expresses courtesy in form, and the shape that protrudes toward the front blooms for a time and multiplies the celebration of commemorative events. <Between a Palm Tree and a Doshiru> examines the transformation of Doshiru extracted from a palm tree through a morphological study of Doshiru used in a wreath. This morphological study reveals that tropical trees are social plants that act as symbolic signs. The artist named the plant as a social plant and traces the cross section of the layer connected to the plant, contemplating that it is not a plant in its natural state, but is socially adapted and utilized by the culture of art immersed in Korean society.
The <Tropical Plant Topographic Map> shows the topographic map of the site where tropical plants were discarded and planted in flower beds or taken up rooted and collected separately.
The work showing statistics on Google Maps shows how the plants that used to be interior decorations have been exhausted and remain in a state of difficulty in treatment. <Available Trees> contains a series of processes in which tropical trees discarded from various parts of Seoul are collected, made into timber, which is a unit of building materials, and then revived into a garden. This metonymy the pattern of biological cycles/cultural phenomena that are discarded after tropical plants exchange as symbols of greetings delivered as open events or congratulations.
Other than <Simple Ways to Make a Palm Tree with an Umbrella>, a series of tropical manuals reveals an insubstantial aspiration for the tropics. The manual work based on materials such as the creation of tropical plants collected on the Internet and decoration methods using tropical fruits shows the existence of imaginary images and collective illusions common to tropical plants, and is utilized by users. It provides a guide to the tropics that has been reinterpreted as if it were a DIY product. Furthermore, objects that reproduce the tropical manual intact are presented as the result of realizing the imaginary image of the tropics. The secondary interpretation of tropical plants creates a situation of heterotopia in which the unconscious image located behind the fascinating symbol of tropics is realized.
In this exhibition, Cho Hye-jin presents works that create new objects by referring to unfamiliar landscapes and unfamiliar objects embodying cultural phenomena that have taken place in Korean society for granted. In addition, it attempts to reveal the cultural phenomena underlying tropical plants through the rearrangement of archives collected from newspapers, books, encyclopedias, and the Internet. This exhibition reflects the chain of modern cultural phenomena that exist invisibly and creates a space of possibility against it, which is a temporary objection to the existing space, such as Heterotopia**, which creates an illusion that accuses reality as an illusion. That's it. [Temporary tropics] will play the gap between the inside and the outside of the common notion, and at the same time act as a contact point of the boundary.
Written by: Haena Noh
*Sook-Ja Choi et al., 「A survey of flower shop owners' and consumers' consciousness on congratulations and condolences」, 『Life Science Research』 Vol.25, p. 46.
**Miselfoco, Translated by Sang-Gil Lee, 『Heterotopia』, Literature and Jisung History, p. 24.
https://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=nhaena&logNo=220621025575&proxyReferer=https:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
https://www.artinsight.co.kr/news/view.php?no=17090
< Available trees >, a piece of tropical plants collected gakmok ( haengunmok, pakira, rust repair , rubber trees ), variable installation , 2015.
< Tropical Manual _ Umbrella Palm Tree >, produced a manual for tropical props based on blogs and social media posts , 2015.
Where did the palm trees in the wreath come from?
Article author palm stems , such as slip our lives come in a tropical plant material The exhibition was prepared . Mainly wreaths used in tropical plants for specific data searching abandoned wreaths , etc. tropical plants deliver the work made .
[ E-Daily Reporter Kim Yong - woon ]
https://www.edaily.co.kr/news/read?newsId=03138966609373840&mediaCodeNo=257
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