Installation view of 《Eun-Me Ahn’s Sculpture Show》 © Museumhead
Museumhead presents 《Eun-Me Ahn’s Sculpture
Show》, a solo exhibition by artist Eun-Me Ahn, on view
through October 3.
《Eun-Me Ahn’s Sculpture Show》 is, quite literally, a solo exhibition of Eun-Me Ahn’s sculptures. The
contemporary dancer who debuted in 1986 with a Newcomer Award now, nearly forty
years later, declares herself a ”newcomer“ once again.
Installation view of 《Eun-Me Ahn’s Sculpture Show》 © Museumhead
The exhibition‘s inventory reads like a
list of funerary goods—Jijeon, kkokdu, maean—threshold objects that mark and
mediate the passage between life and death.
It is the materialization of a visual
language that she has explored for more than three decades, beginning with the ‘Grave’
series (1993–1998), whose object has always been life (and death). Ahn defines
her art as ”Encounterface,“ a device that weaves together encounters
choreographed through uncertainty.
Here, in 《Eun-Me Ahn’s Sculpture Show》, sculpture is not a finished object but a condition that arises in
the space between.
Performance view of 《Eun-Me Ahn’s Sculpture Show》 © Museumhead
On eighteen unannounced days out of the
exhibition’s thirty-six, the artist herself performs Pilmukmu, the Brush-and-Ink Dance, and each performance leaves behind one Muhundo, a Drawing of Dance Traces. Eighteen one-off performances
accumulate, layer upon layer, into what ultimately becomes ”sculpture.“
Eun-Me Ahn‘s performative sculpture
rewrites the old grammar of ???????????? and shamanism for the present.
Borrowing objects from death rituals to open a festival of life, this resonant
field invites each visitor not as a spectator but as a Conduit-Mediator,
crossing stones and walking among the kkokdu.
