"I Found My Shadow After A Long Time" Installation view. Photo: CJY ART STUDIO ©Project Space SARUBIAProject Space SARUBIA presents a solo exhibition “I Found My Shadow After A Long Time” by 2024 Open Call for Artist Heejung Choi, through June 21.
The exhibition consists of a video installation consisting of five channels of video and six channels of audio. The artist has edited and composed a multifaceted and fragmented collection of footage shot in Germany and Korea, with a sentence from Adelbert von Chamisso’s novel The Man Who Sold His Shadow leading the main narrative flow of the video.
The exhibition raises fundamental questions about the nature of human beings by drawing out concrete aspects of reality that have led to the confusion of memory and identity. It is a time to reflect on the universal value of human existence and the meaning of life, which is analogized as a “lost shadow”.
Heejung Choi received her B.A. and M.F.A. (Western Painting) from Ewha Womans University, and her M.F.A. (Film) from University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.
She has held six solo exhibitions, including “The opposite of love is Abandonment,” Artspace Boan 2 (Seoul, 2023), “Romantic irony,” Yangju Residency Exhibition Hall (Yangju, 2023), “WAVE 2022: Thinking Hands,” Sound gallery, Seoul Citizens Hall (Seoul, 2022), and screenings “Filmvorführung, Enlight my Space. Kunst nach 1990″, Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, 2015), “Curtain Call,” Changucchin Museum of Art Yangju, (Yangju, 2023), “über: arbeiten,” Xpon Art Gallery (Hamburg, 2021), “FLATLANDS,” GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (Bremen, 2016), and many other group exhibitions and screenings.
Choi is currently participating in a residency program at Goyang Artist Residency Haeum (2024), through the Chang Ucchin museum of Art Yangju Residence (2022-23).
