Kim Jung Eun, self mapping_공간의 기억,시간의조각들(2015.09-2018.08_3year), Mixed media, Dimension variable ©CR CollectiveCR Collective
presents a solo exhibition 《Spin-Spot》 by artist Kim Jung Eun, through July 26.
Kim Jung
Eun has consistently explored ways of mapping the unquantifiable sensations and
residual elements of the city by walking through urban environments and
perceiving them with her body. She reconstructs sensory maps using new legends
based on elements typically excluded from conventional mapping—aimlessness,
detours, repetition, and irregularity of perception.
Installation view
of 《BLUE DOT》 (Art Space Tribowl, 2020) ©CR
CollectiveIn her
solo exhibition 《Spin-Spot》,
the artist does not seek to reproduce or document the urban landscape she
encountered while walking from Dongshipjagak to the Gwanghwamun area last
winter. Instead, she organizes the vibrations and moments of tension sensed in
the streets into a multi-layered sensory structure within the exhibition space.
Beginning
with urban devices—traffic lanes, fences, revolving doors, temporary
structures—Kim transforms elements that divide flows or control vision into
sculptural forms of perception. These devices function as zones where
conflicting rhythms and bodily responses intersect, attempting to detect porous
spaces in the tightly surveilled and controlled urban surface where senses seep
in and leak out.
Installation view
of 《prototype1_overlay》(Keep in Touch Seoul,
2024) ©CR Collective《Spin-Spot》 proposes a porous structure, not an integrated or flattened one. It forms a space of whirlpools—where flows diverge, slip away, and remix. Within the structured flows of control and alignment, this space becomes both a stage and a threshold that reactivates sensations previously omitted or delayed. As viewers walk through the exhibition, they are naturally drawn into the resonance of the city that their bodies have previously sensed.
