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Hyun-Jin Kwak: History of mythologization, 2015. Mixed materials, 100 x 100 x 10 cm.
Hyun-Jin Kwak’s artwork History of mythologisation is part of her artistic project Object Purview. The artwork is a photo object depicting a fresco from the ceiling of Teatro Ariosto in the city Reggio Emilia in northern Italy. Surrounded by a broad white frame with inbuilt lightings the artwork is not so much photography as it is a sculpture. The white frame quotes the architecture
surrounding the fresco in the actual theatre. Hyun-Jin Kwak has worked with the city Reggio Emil-ia in relation to other art projects, but what was special for this one was the concern of how distant objects difficult to scrutinize can become accessible through size and setting.
Hyun-Jin Kwak (1974, KR) lives and works in Stockholm where she also received her master’s degree at the University of Art, Crafts and Design. She mainly works with staged photography and treat these as sculptures or installations. The result is often that the artworks give associations to the-atre scenography. Hyun-Jin Kwak sees a connection between the theatre, the myths that we surround ourselves with and the way world history is told, where the East and the West often are portrayed as a tale of war. Hyun Kwak has exhibited her work at Kalmer Konstmuseum, SE; Uppsala Konstmuse-um, SE; Galleri Image, DK; Galleri F 15, NO, and Galleria UNO + UNO, IT, among others.
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