Installation view of 《Found in Translation》 © The Untitled Void
The Untitled Void presents a two-person exhibition, 《Found in Translation》,
by Wedhar Riyadi and Sejin Hong, on view through October 17.
The world becomes an interpretation from the very moment it is
perceived. We encounter the external world through seeing, hearing, touching,
and remembering, yet perception is never a transparent medium through which
reality is received exactly as it is.
Rather, it is a process through which the world is continuously
reconstructed by way of our individual bodies, sensory conditions, and lived
experiences. What we call reality, then, is perhaps less a single objective
form than a world perpetually interpreted and reconstituted through perception
and experience.
Installation view of 《Found in Translation》 © The Untitled Void
《Found in Translation》 explores
this relationship between perception and reality. At the heart of both artists’
practices lies a process of “translation,” in which reality is transformed into
image. While Wedharr photographs objects shaped by hand and subjects them to
digital processes to create new images, Hong fragments, layers, and reorganizes
images drawn from the reality she perceives, constructing a new visual order.
Installation view of 《Found in Translation》 © The Untitled Void
If touch and materiality serve as the point of departure for
Wedhar’s images, Hong’s images emerge from a more complex sensory experience in
which hearing and vision intersect. Beginning from different modes of
perception, both artists move beyond the direct representation of reality to
reveal how reality is sensed, remembered, and reconstructed.
Within the unfamiliar landscapes they create, ‘Found in
Translation’ asks whether what we see is the world itself, or merely one
version of the world translated through our bodies, senses, and experiences.
