Ha Cha Youn
Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 3:20PM Thursday 23 September 2010
7.30pm
Localization
Sweet Home (2004), 2’30”, 2004
Balade dans Paris, 4’42”, 2006
Sweet Home 4, 7’59”, 2009
Bassin des Recollets, 3’37”, 2009
2P Contemporary Art Gallery and DIORAMA PROJECTS are pleased to announce the second of our DIORAMA PROJECTIONS featuring the video work of visual artist Ha Cha Youn, a Korean artist living and working in France.
Ha Cha Youn was born in Masan, Korea in 1960. Since 1983 she has lived and worked in Germany and France and is currently living in Paris. She studied visual art in Nimes and Poitiers in France and in Braunschweig, Germany. She has exhibited her work at the Seoul Art Centre, Hangaram Museum, the Gyeonggido Museum of Modern Art and the Gyeongnam Art Museum, Korea, the 6th Biennale of Issy, and at the international Biennale of Contemporary Art, Melle, France.
For over twenty years, Ha Cha Youn has used the ubiquitous, multi-functional plastic bag in her work, mundane objects that have become symbolic of over-consumption, pollution and environmental meltdown. Despite these connotations, the plastic bag also serves as an ephemeral marker of human presence. Through this object, Ha Cha Youn considers the precariousness of daily life; consumption, migration, deracination and the alienation of homelessness.
A live internet discussion with the artist will take place after the screening.
Location:
2P Contemporary Art Gallery
Shop 5, G/F, 6-20 Po Tuck Street
Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
***This is event is free but booking is essential*** Contact info@dioramaprojects.org or info@2p-gallery.com for reservations.
