friday 6 march > sunday 20 september
wednesday, thursday, friday
11 am >1 am + 4 pm > 7pm
saturday, sunday
11 am > 7 pm
FMAV – Palazzina dei Giardini – Modena
Geumhyung Jeong (KR)
Upgrade in Progress
solo exhibition and site-specific installation
The focus on Geumhyung Jeong extends from Bologna to Modena through the partnership between Live Arts Week and FMAV, expanding the gaze of an artist who questions the relationship between her body and technologies with a delicate obsession and strong sensuality.
Upgrade in Progress (FMAV – Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, 6 March > 2 June 2020) is the first solo exhibition of Geumhyung Jeong in Italy. The exhibition, which mixes sculpture, performance and video, presents a new site-specific installation with prosthetic devices, dummies, spare body parts, hardware tools and remote-controlled mechanical robots built by the artist. The sculptural machines, placed over modular worktables, transform the Palazzina’s halls into a total stage setting. The spatial layout, broken up by videos along the whole exhibition route has been used by Geumhyung Jeong during her period of residence as a studio-workshop where she performed tests and experiments on her ‘toys’. By transforming this hyper-technological environment through the simple power of creative imagination, Jeong’s exhibition reveals what lies beyond the deep materiality of the technological body: a cage needing to regain both mortal flesh and control, to which only the artist’s mind holds the key.
On Sunday 29 March Geumhyung Jeong will interact with the objects of her installation at the Palazzina dei Giardini with the action Live Demonstration tour.
Geumhyung Jeong is a South Korea-based choreographer, visual and performance artist. She studied Acting at Hoseo University in Asan, Dance and Performance at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul and Animation Film at the Korean Academy of Film Arts in Seoul. Jeong’s work explores the potential of the body, its sensuality and its power to change its surroundings, combining languages and techniques from the fields of contemporary dance, performance, puppet theatre and the visual arts. Performances: Oil Pressure Vibrator, 7 ways, Fitness Guide, CPR Practice, Rehab Training, Homemade RC Toy. Exhibitions and installations: Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, Spa & Beauty. She has exhibited works and performed internationally at Tate Modern (London), Kunsthalle Basel, Liveworks Festival (Sidney), PuSh Festival (Vancouver), Atelier Hermes (Seoul), New Museum Triennial (New York), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich), Delfina Foundation (London), SPIELART Festival (Munich), ImpulsTanz Festival (Wien), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Time-Based Art Festival (Portland), Kyoto Experiment, Taipei Arts Festival and many others. In 2016 was the winner of the Hermès Foundation Missulsang award, and in 2009 of the Excellence Award for Alternative Vision at the Seoul New Media Art Festival.