Art Space Pool is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Joo Kyung Yoon, as the last show of 2010 pool production series. Three new video works by the artist will be introduced; projected two single-channel video works named “Salute” (2010) and “A Red Buddha” (2010) tracing two faces of processions over military and candle light protest after the end of ideology era, and played two-channel video work, taken an artificial mountain made by the coal dusts, titled“A Black Mountain” (2009-2010) which denotes a gap exists between the different behaviors of many or group. The artist perspective reveals power dispostif(deployment) working in life of individuals and society, at the same time, testifies that repression and trauma being beyond the processions gathering for utopias then scattering in a moment. As critic Jung Hyun pointed out, Korea confronts asymmetric parallel of today like “the main streets and square give tribute to the man of power and glorify it pointlessly; the procession of resistance inanely drifts as if it lost its focus.” The exhibition will become a moment for autonomy and puissance, to advent, to destroy the internalized and diffused lethargy in ourselves.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Jung Hyun, an art critic, produced new writing on the artist.The text is published on the exhibition leaflet and Art Space Pool website.