“Out of the Blue” Installation view at PS Sarubia ©PS SarubiaPS Sarubia is pleased to present “Out of the Blue,” a solo exhibition by Minkyu Hwang (b. 1986), from July 5 to August 4.
The exhibition is part of PS Sarubia’s ‘Open Call for Artists.’ This program has been ongoing since PS Sarubia opened in 1999. It aims to provide opportunities for artists by selecting artists based on their original thinking and experimental spirit, regardless of their age, career, or work tendencies.
Hwang Minkyu, who was selected in 2023, considers the collection of everyday scenes as a starting point for documenting the times. Thus, he shoots footage of his daily life and turns it into a mockumentary that blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction. These everyday images are combined with comics, movies, and social issues to create new narratives. In this exhibition, we can see his new approach to science fiction literature and the humanities, rather than the subcultural narratives of the 90s that he often utilized in his previous works. Also, we can see stories about disasters in life and the limits of humanity that are revealed in disasters, a topic that the artist constantly questions. In his new work < Jungwol (The first month of the year) > (2023), he interweaves the narratives of a wife and mother, showing the difficulties of living an independent life and the journey of finding an object to rely on.
