At once tender and unsettling, the films, sculptures, installations, and performances of Geumhyung Jeong (* 1980) are often studies in animism of some sort. For her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, the South Korean artist and choreographer focuses her attention on the erotics of technical animism. She creates a large-scale installation comprised of numerous robotic sculptures built from DIY technologies and short films demonstrating the strange choreographies to which she subjects her “homemade” bodies. Like so much of her work, the ensemble questions the boundaries between desire and control, human and machine, animate and inanimate.
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Exhibition and performances made possible through the generous support of the Luma Foundation and Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte; with additional support from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, Korea Arts Management Service, Fund for Korean Art Abroad, and from the SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation, as well as the kind involvement of Laurence Geoffrey’s, Ltd.
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