RohwaJeong
o Year : 2013
o Genre : visual arts
o Website : www.rohwajeong.com
o Email : rohwajeong@gmail.com
Profile
Solo exhibition
2010 <Seoul art space Archive room open invitation exhibit>, Seoul art space, Seoul, Korea
2009 <RohwaJeong solo exhibition and Summer Festival>, Schloss Balmoral, Germany
2008 <Single room for 2 people(Emerging 8)>, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
2007 <The key in a suitcase>, Jinheung Art hall, Seoul, Korea
<Complement>, Art space HUT, Seoul, Korea
Group exhibition
2013 <Let’s Remain Courteous - Yeom’ Jungho’s solo show>, HITE collection, Seoul, Korea
<EX>, Espace des arts sans frontierés, Paris, France
2012 <Work out>, Schloss Plüschow, Germany
2011 <The day without hands-DINGOS>, RYU HWARANG, Seoul, Korea
2010 <Zeitgleich>, WERKSTATT GALERIE 20, Germany
<EXTENDED SENSES>, Song won Art Center, Seoul, Korea
<Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010>, Song-do Tomorrow city, Incheon, Korea
<Balmoral Blend>, Arp Museum, Germany
<Close Encounter>, Jeju Museum of art, Jeju-do, Korea
2009 <DECENTERED>, Arko Art Center, Gwangju Museum of art, Busan Museum of art
2008 <Intro>, Goyang National Art Studio, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
<Ssamzie Space 1998-2008>, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
<Fashion Show>, Moran Museum, Geonggi-do, Korea
Project
2013 Media Canvas Project in Collaboration ; RohwaJeong + Jihee Kim ' Flow District /
Never ending novel ' _ Media Facade, Seoul Square
Curated by Sung woo Kim
Awards
2013 Artists in Abroad Residence program support 2013, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2010 Arbeitsstipendien Schloss Plüschow 2010, Germany
Artists in Abroad Residence program support 2010, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2009 Vermont 2009-10 Freeman Foundation Asian Aartists' Fellowship
_ Korea Honorable Mention, selected , Vermont, U.S.A
SongEun Arts Award 9th, SongEun Arts & Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2008 Grant for Young Artists 2008, Arts Council Korea, Korea
Residency
2013 Geumcheon art space, Seoul, Korea
2012 Cite internationale des arts Paris, France
2010 Schloss Plüschow for a scholarship 2010, Germany
2009 Schloss Balmoral _ Exchange Residency Program, Germany
2008 2008-2009 National Art Studio, Goyang 5th Residency Long Term Artist, Korea
Works
Signature _ brush, carved dustpan, dust _ 50x50x10 cm _ 2013
Two different time _ Toilet paper, cardboard toilet paper tubes, wood holders _ 40x40x10 cm _ 2013
Moving - unchangeable 1425 _ Single channel video _ 00:02:32 _ 2013 _ captured image
Between a and A _ acrylic on canvas _ 260x153cm _ 2010
Between a and A _ single channel video _ 00:02:42 loop _ 2010 _ captured image
Wanna be happy every night… _ panties x2ea, lamp _ 40x40x40cm _ 2010
The discovery of living _ masking tape, personal objects in use _ 550x550x350cm _ 2010
ISOPINK _ chiffon fabric, fluorescent tubes, MDF _ 500x330x350cm _ 2009
Das Leben Der Anderen _ single channel video _ 00:03:21 loop _ 2009 _ installation view
Self-portrait _ aluminum case, sponge _ 28x70x20cm _ 2008
Small Ways to Make Surroundings Stand up
Hyun Si Won, Independent Curator
No artists are free from “everyday life”.
Both artists and viewers all are well aware how slowly quotidian aspects
stimulating art move, and how these aspects might be a constraint that hinders
them from going far. And yet, works by RohwaJeong (Noh Yun-hee & Jeong
Hyunseok) reflect the time, days and nights they have shared together. Their work
begins at the minute they turn back to opposite directions. We may refer to all
backgrounds forming the moment as the everyday. But, I call what initiates
RohwaJeong’s works are “nuances” filling their surroundings. The nuances their
work encapsulates display a slight twist in the everyday structure, sending
subtle signals to innumerable things shaping their surroundings. Their work
appears poetic, with the minute differences each thing slightly moving with
their own motive power shows. The question concerning the “relations” they have
constantly raised is triggered by these differences. The differences reflect
their habitude to compare with and adjust their different perspectives in a fluid
state stemming from different ways of thinking rather than their invariable
trait, springing from the two artists’ united identity. The times the two
artists have shared overlap with another and the time large and small things
around them have gone through. <In 86 Days Packed> (2010) the artists
begin their journey, always carrying a case they made to anywhere they travel.
When they move, traces of space and time, such as muddy water on a rainy day
and dust are left like fragments on its surface. While the time of 86 days is
stored inside and outside of the case, the stains of time the artists have
excavated come into being, and an accidental picture made by the surroundings
of the places they have traveled emerges. <Two Different Time> (2013) in
which two separate objects look like two rolls of toilet paper at a glimpse
shows two objects with opposite traits. One becomes a mirror image to another, overturning
the image of a common object, in that it is made with paperboard cores wrapped
with a long strip of toilet paper: this roll of paper is made by putting
paperboard cores together. The material composing the two types of toilet paper
is the same, but the time they undergo flows in diagonally opposite directions.
The white roll of toilet paper becomes shorter when used, whereas the blue roll
of toilet paper arouses an urge to increase its length in us. The materials
they deal with mainly appear light like commas in a sentence or accents in
musical notes. Where does this lightness come from and where is it going? RohwaJeong
raises things in the air and repositions them, making sections. The strength
suggested in <Wanna be happy every night...>(2010), an installation work
representing a polygonal star shape with two underpants and lighting; <The
Discovery of Living> (2010), a monumental work in a circle formed with
personal objects; and <The Things> (2014), a performance of hanging a
canvas with letters with a rope does not greatly oppose gravity, not far from
the ways each thing exists. In the way of maintaining the usual state of things
in tension, the artists recreate the objects with which they spent time with,
or say goodbye to a cutting board they used. <bye-bye> (2014)
<Souvenir of Somewhere (frame)> (2013) demonstrating their collection of
abstruse, gorgeous images is a souvenir from the future, reminiscing over old magazines
they discovered at a secondhand bookstore in Paris. In this work they make
temporary frames by applying white acrylic to some images secured from
hand-stained magazines, thereby blurring the boundaries among images and
setting up a secret archive for images on a white wall. <Souvenir of
Somewhere (tree)> (2013) in which they erect tree images earned from
printing material shows how their work can be interesting despite their minimum
involvement. They display a fresh enlightenment from trees that were original
standing on ground, rather than lying on paper, and trees forming a forest when
they meet other trees. In their recent exhibition (Gallery Factory, April
30-May 25, 2014), <Within Arm’s Length>, RohwaJeong summons things that
are usually placed near or at the back of the venue. They seem to reflect each
other in a completely empty world, not a world full of meaning, with a pair of
canvases facing each other, the venue’s floor plan printed with nothing, and a
ladder used for displaying artworks. They are in their own state, not
interrupting others at all.
