NYAB Event - KyungHa Ahn "Escape or Freedom"

KyungHa Ahn "Escape or Freedom"

Elga Wimmer PCC

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The process of building KyungHa Ahn’s own house was an opportunity to think about ‘who I am,’ ‘how I have lived’ and ‘how will I live from now on,’ this exhibition’s work is a record of emotions that one felt while building the house.

The act of ‘life’ is a product of combination made by conflict between two opposing relationships such as me and others, ego and non-ego, objectivity and subjectivity and soul and body. And KyungHa tried to express these dichotomous concepts through’ house’ and ‘vessel.’ The house and vessel here are not normal images. Made with see through fabric, an installation of house model, which is hanged in the ceiling, shows that inner side and outer side coexist, and reality and fantasy are just the product inside her head while she wonder if she is keeping herself inside the frame with the reality clearly existing. On the other hand, as understanding that the inner side and outer side coexist and have the frame, she realized that the house is a shelter from the outside as well as her reality and world’s limitation that cannot be broken. An onion, another medium that expresses her wish to keep finding freedom as accepting this reality, is also an expression of fear through repetition and enumeration that there might be nothing at all after all.