Geumhyung Jeong investigates the intersections between the human body and the machinery that facilitates our lives. She builds “body-machines” out of medical supplies, commercially available electronics, and other materials, and interacts with the functionalities of these agglomerations of devices in unexpected ways. In addition to performing choreographed movements with the body-machines, she also makes installations that hint at her production process. In Under Construction, the main components of the installation are anatomical models manufactured for medical education, which the artist redesigns and rewires into mechanical objects that hold the potential for different movements. A variety of large and small objects resembling disassembled robot components and clinical specimens are laid out on foldable plastic tables, as though in a laboratory or workshop. They invite viewers to imagine the body that will be completed by their assembly, as well as the movements that body might produce—something between human and mechanized motion.
