HongLee Hyunsook, What You Are Touching Now, 2019. Single channel video, color, sound. 17 min 48 sec. Courtesy of the artist
This artwork uses a camera and voice instead of hands to touch a rock carving of a seated Buddha, which is located 108 steep stairs above the main hall of Seunggasa Temple on Bukhansan Mountain in Seoul. This imagined contact with the Buddha inscribed on a large rock—that is, an unreachable being—yields a certain humor intrinsic to groping the solemn body of Buddha with words. Furthermore, such an action invites questions about the reproduction of the senses, the differences between performance and practice, and art as an event that reveals the truth.
HongLee, Hyunsook (b. 1958, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul)
HongLee, Hyunsook creates works that combine installation, performance and video, adopting an oppositional stance toward the contexts and physical parameters of a specific place. This artistic attitude is a manifestation of resistance to patriarchal society and its gaze as well as the energy that intersects with a specific environment. Through this process, the artist’s body becomes an important medium, instilling HongLee’s artworks with essential questions based on a clear structure, eliciting natural participation and solidarity, and questioning schematic lifestyles and human-centered thinking.
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