Witnessing the Traces
February 11, 2016 – July 14, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11
Location: BBCN Bank Woodside, 5015 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, NY 11377
Viewing Hours: M-F, 9am-5pm
The AHL Foundation is pleased to announce a group exhibition “Witnessing the Traces” by artists Eunkyung Lee, Jayoung Yoon and Eunjin Kim, and curated by Jain Kwak. The exhibition runs from February 11 through July 14, 2016. Featured artworks show how each artist visualizes the time, memories and the past using mundane yet personal objects around them. They discover history and meaning from various materials like a toilet sink, hair or wood panel.
Eunkyung Lee’s interest in living environments led her to cast parts of her Greenpoint apartment as well as the parts of the surroundings like a corner of concrete streets and a hydrant. To her, a living environment does not only mean a space she physically resides, but also includes broader aspects of living like travelling, or streets; the concept she refers as mental home.
Jayoung Yoon uses her hair as the visual nexus for the intersection between the physical and spiritual realms. As a material, hair is intimately corporeal and focuses the viewer’s attention on the body. As it grows, hair represents the accumulation of time and memory. Since its physical properties make it last long after death, it is an especially appropriate symbol of remembrance.
In her hair painting series, her hair appears submerged in acrylic in compositions of grids. She pared them down to the most reductive elements, to approach a simple space of perceiving structure fading away into the painted ether, representing thoughts dissolving, or surfacing between states of the conscious and unconscious mind.
Eunjin Kim finds new histories whenever sculpting wood; wood’s own story is revealed in its growth rings and marks like gnarls, bark seam that had been formed in a long time. She focuses on tracing the growth of wood hidden under the tough barks as if excavating passage of time itself. She displays the works that attempted to rearrange the natural flows in new orders like the rectangular piece that has been reconstructed in a spiral way; these overlapped lines of flows issue a question of the passage of time.
This exhibition is part of AHL Foundation’s Art in the Workplace Program, which exhibits contemporary artwork in a work environment to create greater exposure for talented artists while fostering easier access and support for the arts within the business community. The Art in the Workplace program is presented in collaboration with BBCN Bank with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support has been provided by KISS Products and Jason J. Kim Oral Design.
For further inquiries about the exhibition or our programs, please contact 212-675-1619 or info@ahlfoundation.org.
