Installation view of 《Murmuring Objects》 ©NOON CONTEMPORARY
NOON
CONTEMPORARY presents a group exhibition 《Murmuring
Objects》 on view through February 13.
This
exhibition, featuring Minhye Kim, Wonjoo Park, Wonwoo Lee, Uesung Lee, and
Seongguk Cho, brings together works that appear in the guise of familiar
objects, while simultaneously narrowing or prying open the gap between artwork
and object. In doing so, it invites encounters with entities that linger in
that opaque, indeterminate space between the two.
Installation view of 《Murmuring Objects》 ©NOON CONTEMPORARY
The
works encountered in this exhibition partially retain the original functions
and forms of objects, yet through acts of manipulation and intervention they
shift into different states. As a result, they no longer remain as objects that
were simply “there,” but become ambiguous entities—difficult to define—that
hold our gaze.
Refusing
to be assigned clear purposes or meanings, these objects operate as presences
that momentarily suspend fixed orders and modes of perception.
Installation view of 《Murmuring Objects》 ©NOON CONTEMPORARY
《Murmuring
Objects》 is not an exhibition that assigns new meanings
to objects or demands specific interpretations. Rather, it momentarily suspends
the ways in which we have come to perceive objects—classifying them by
function, calling them by name, and organizing them through meaning.
The
objects placed here do not rush to be fully understood or defined; instead,
they remain in their own states. Before them, viewers are invited not so much
to “read” something as to experience the distance and rhythm formed between the
objects and themselves, as well as the gaps in sensation that resist easy
closure. This exhibition is not about the moment when objects begin to speak
again, but about lingering briefly in a time when objects remain un-fixed, not
yet solidified into certainty.
Participating
Artists: Minhye
Kim, Wonjoo Park, Wonwoo Lee, Uesung Lee, Seongguk Cho
