FOLLOWING AN ORBIT, JUDGING THE RHYTHM: MIND STREAM
A narrative flows through images of the sea. Two people exchange letters, and the narrative focuses on their contents. They are talking about the ‘waves that would have crested 150 years ago’ in an oil painting by Gustave Courbet, the flow of now knowing where the ‘1000-year-old water settled under the sea’, and about ‘Seung-hee Choi’, a dancer who travelled across the waters during the Japanese colonial era. In this way, the movements of different rhythms, cycles, flows and time periods are superimposed and spectators are wrapped up within the wider atmosphere. This is ‘Mind Stream’, the solo exhibition of Hwayeon Nam, on show at the Art Sonje Center until 2 May.
According to the Art Sonje Center, ‘the exhibition is based upon the artist’s research into the dancer Seung-hee Choi between 2012 and the present, and the journey of reflection prompted by this research’. This interview was conducted to gain greater understanding of the artist’s thoughts about the exhibition, and due to
