PS122 Gallery
150 First Avenue, 212 288 4249
East Village / Lower East Side
May 24 - June 15, 2008
Reception: Saturday, May 24, 5 - 7 PM
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Si-Yeon Kim creates fragile stacks of salt or used soap bars as subject in her fanciful photographs. The eventual collapse of these delicate stacks breathes life into the inanimate, giving a sense of mortality connecting between viewer and subject, leading a narrative of uncanny intrusion. Though the stacks appear fragile, frozen in photography, they keep formed contrary to their weak construction. Kim’s eerie scenes are delicate but alien. Giving life to the mundane removes familiarity and implies assault. suggesting the volatility of nature and self. Kim’s documents the unreal invasion, where her stacks find vacant housing and take up inhabitancy.
Eun Young Choi’s illusive design, weaving plant-like growths with lace designs, foods, home decorations and fanciful motifs will encompass the Main Gallery. The artist uses images of domestic and iconic objects to create partial memories. Like the imaginative daydream of a child, curious stories are derived through patterns and images. His disjointed storytelling is composed of pieces of the everyday life represented in vinyl cutouts, creating wallpaper with innocence and exuberance in the attempt to perpetuate the whimsy and joy of childhood.
Plus a Hallway Project by Jeremiah Teipen