DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present Gravity and Lightness, the solo exhibition of Jaye Rhee, a recipient of the 2nd DOOSAN Yonkang Artist Award in 2011. Utilizing video, installation, and photography, Jaye Rhee continues to express the non-existence of images that we believe in and recall as being real, as well as the uncertainty of stereotypes, by employing trivial and simple everyday subjects.

This exhibition presents Rhee's The Flesh and the Book, in which the artist cast five former dancers for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, all in their 40s to 60s. After providing basic directions as to choreography within the limited space, she produced a video of the dancers' freely expressed movements. In the white space, dancers wearing black clothes move organically between five rubber bands installed at different heights and distances that recall a sheet of music paper. The video, recorded in a three-dimensional space, arouses a visual imbalance owing to the lack of a sense of space on the two-dimensional screen. However, this work recovers this missing sense of space via the dancers' movements between rows and via the changes to the sizes of their bodies due to distance, all while providing the viewer a sense of visual gratification.

The dancers' movements simultaneously unfolding in the four-channel video The Flesh and the Book metaphorically reveal the possibility of the visual and the aural's parallel co-existence in the simple and limited space of black and white, the visual gratification achieved through the balance and imbalance of one's sense of space, and a sense of the history and time carried by the dancers' bodies.

*image (left)
© Jaye Rhee
courtesy of the artist and Doosan Gallery