Jaye Rhee “The Flesh and the Book”
Doosan Gallery
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DOOSAN Gallery New York presents The Flesh and the Book, a solo exhibition of Jaye Rhee. The exhibition occupies her four-channel video and installation which explores the intersections between performance, the moving image, and sound installation.
Casting original dancers of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Rhee renders the human body as minimalist shapes that convey an improvisational selection of ‘notes’ within a musical composition co-created with Elliott Sharp. The dancers’ movements, both choreographed and organic, shift horizontally across the row of screens. At times, the movements flow synchronically with the sound while in other moments the relationship between the visual and aural becomes a series of independent juxtapositions.
As in many of Rhee’s works, at the heart of The Flesh and the Book lies an irreconcilable tension; here it exists between physical dance and musical notes. The dancers perform within a ‘musical staff’ made of five thick rubber bands that are suspended at different heights yet are equidistant from each other. A visual loss occurs when the two-dimensional music notes transition into the three-dimensional dance, and vice versa. As more notes are gained, more dancers are lost; the two must maintain a balanced yet opposed existence.
Jaye Rhee (b. Seoul, Korea) attended a nine-week residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received the Korea Arts Foundation of America (2008), DOOSAN Yonkang Art Award (2011), Franklin Furnace Fund (2010), SEMA Young Artist Grant (2010), and Arts Council Korea Grant (2010). Rhee’s solo exhibitions include And the Ship Sails on, Cais Gallery, Seoul (2010); Hardboard Sky, Corridor Gallery, New York City (2010); and Now You See It, Now You Don’t, KCCLA, Los Angeles (2009). Her group exhibitions include Videosphere : A New Generation, Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY (2011); Crying, Seasaw, Tear, Between: New Video, Norton Museum of Art, Florida (2012); Roppongi Art Night Screening, Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo (2012); and Keeping It Real, CU Art Museum, Colorado (2012). She received her M.F.A. and B.F.A. from School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
[Image: Jaye Rhee “The Flesh and the Book” (2013) 4 Channel video installation with sound, Video still]
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Schedule
from May 16, 2013 to June 15, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-05-16 from 18:00 to 20:00