December

Nov 3 (Thu) – Dec 4 (Sun), 2016

Audio Visual Pavilion
57-6, Jahamunro, Jongno-gu, Seoul

Opening hours
Tuesdays – Sundays
(Mondays closed)
12 – 6pm

Opening reception
Nov 3 (Thu), 2016, 5pm

Optical Race
Donghee Kim
Sungsic Moon
Geumhyung Jeong
Jeuno Kim
MeeNa Park
Minha Park
Haneyl Choi
Haeri Choi
Sangun Ho

* Geumhyung Jeong’s works are exhibited
in the following space during the following period:

Nov 18 (Fri) – Dec 4 (Sun), 2016
Tuesdays – Sundays (Mondays closed)
12 – 6pm
B1 563-10, Yeonnam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul




[An Unknown Plant]
— Botanical artist Soyoung Lee's workshop
Nov 5 (Sat), 2016, 1pm
Mt. Inwang Soosungdong valley area and
Audio Visual Pavilion
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[Introduction to Meteorology for Artists]
— Image critic Youngjoon Lee's lecture
Nov 12 (Sat), 2016, 5pm
Audio Visual Pavilion

The Inje Smelt Festival which attracts hundreds of thousands of people was cancelled this January because of no frozen ice. Particle matters have emerged as a serious issue since last year, causing sore eyes and throats and hazy visions – we endlessly feel that we are almost at the tip of the world to the point of making this statement clumsy. This August was the hottest month ever in the meteorological history of Korea. The numbers informing of the heat wave changed our daily life of producing and consuming products. We consistently raise doubts about the weather forecast while protecting ourselves from today’s weather: there is nothing predictable about the future. Repeated experiences and memories about the unit of time, and the senses about it have become a domain which is impossible to compile or interpret. There is no data of common sense which reminiscent of the ‘summer landscape’. The sense of the scorching heat this summer, that of last summer, and that of the summer several years ago are not grouped in the unit of time – ‘summer’ – anymore. Climate change hampers the efforts to collect data on senses in the unit of time, that is, daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally and yearly. Data being collected with the utmost care and attention do not convey significant results anymore. Then, one may ask some questions: how can one paint a landscape or an image of a certain point in time, and would it be possible at all?

With the questions in mind, December wonders about how an artist that creates the then landscape and image experiences responds to such changes. It is to explore into how the sense of viewers of the landscape is changing, and the images they grasp based on the variable of climate. Wouldn’t the seasonal sense let artists see something or make things noticeable? What impact would the sense toward climate have on the living people on this planet? What kind of realistic sense would climate be for image creators? While weather was a big influence to Impressionist artists, weather in today’s world is the only remaining indicator to be measured. A total of 10 artists participating in December suggest the seasons and weathers they have witnessed through their eyes. The weather in the first-person viewed memory of the past is brought to the exhibition hall, the color of the August sky of 2016 is grasped, and the past 100-year archives on weather unfold. Styrofoam-based snowflakes are created, or the mode of representing Namsan Mountain amid particle matters is tested.

Weather makes everything possible and also impossible. The seasonal sense makes people move, stop, and wait, and interferes them in the simplest way. The exhibition titled December is held for one month in November. December is the time of tomorrow for November. December is a doubt and question tossed toward the unpredictable world of tomorrow. One might realize that he or she is the main character in an incidence instead of a background only when standing on the stage in out-of-joint time.