Venue: Audio Visual Pavilion (Seoul)

Hannah Woo X Mat-kka
l: The revenge, it’s ma power, huh
Sla Cha X Hanyel Choi
: PARTS

2X2, a special exhibition of Audio Visual Pavilion, is an experiment on number 2. The exhibition started from an exploration into relationships of an artist as an individual and an artist as a member of a group. One curiosity followed another on the following questions: what would happen if an artist collaborates with another artist, or holds an exhibition? What would the two artists decide to do, how would they determine each of their work or roles based on the decisions, and what kind of exhibition would this procedure create? If two different exhibitions are connected, would they become a single exhibition? And what roles would an organizer and a curator play in such an exhibition?

2X2 consists of a duo exhibition involving two artists, and another duo exhibition of other two artists, and a day when two curators intervenes in the two duo exhibitions. Artist Hannah Woo and designer Mat-kkal are doing the first duo exhibition, and artists Sla Cha and Hanyel Choi are doing the latter one. Woo suggested Mat-kkal to do an exhibition together, and they prepared the ‘Revenge in Summer’ by co-organizing and co-producing it. Choi who has suggested to do a duo exhibition to Cha since the end of 2016 made it a rule to ‘do as much individual work as possible’ – a contrasting attitude initially shown to be somewhat planned. They place their individual works created without mutual intervention based on the key word of ‘pieces of human bodies’. There is simply a single day, which serves as a commonality of the two duo exhibitions. It is a day when the two co-directors of AVP collect all the works in the prior exhibition and the exhibition to follow in a single place and have them randomly placed – playing the role of ‘multiplication (X)’.

The title of the duo exhibition of Woo and Mat-kkal is The revenge, it’s ma power, huh!. Woo who has mostly focused on sculptural and installation works and Mat-kkal working as a designer encounter each other with a virtual figure named ‘a person who prepares for a play of revenge’. The two artists whose way and course of creating works is different as an artist and a designer, respectively, find a point where their imagination intersects by removing the boundary of art and design. The main character in the revenge they have envisioned is represented through sculpture, installation and video, and the exhibition hall becomes the main character’s laboratory and studio to thoroughly prepare for a revenge. Audience follow the movement line of the main character who collects weaponry, build up their physical strength for a revenge in this space, and does not forget to curse their opponent, and become another author or character in the play of revenge. In this studio which opens at a night time in summer, Woo and Mat-kkal intentionally get united to create an exhibition into a specific event where a single scenario is implemented.

The title of the duo exhibition of Choi and Cha is PARTS. The two know each other more than anyone else would know since they majored in sculpture together, and yet have thoughts that are as different as the time they have shared. The two artists suggest the theme of ‘pieces of human bodies’ which many might have seen or not seen in art textbooks since their childhood. The two artists do not necessarily ask any questions on the intent of pieces – big and small – in between the mindset to start learning anew and the technique of pretending to be poor in skills. And yet, they state they would like to work on ‘pieces of human bodies’. They jump into the universe and depression after talking about themselves as they were amazed at the big sculpture at the British Museum in terms of stupidity, pedantry, honesty, art colleges and Evangelion. They go back to the state where nothing is explained. While Choi expands a part of the methodology of ‘cutting and bursting’, Cha shrinks a part of the ‘technique of pretending to be less good at things which can be supposedly be done well’. The two exchange a text in their emails: “we might look like a funny duo intending to travel the entire Pacific Ocean via a raft”. Would somebody with a partially destroyed brain and body observe these combinations at ease by entering the exhibition hall? How would the ‘pieces of human bodies’ of Choi and Cha look different where chairs are brought to AVP and a part of exhibition customs for AVP spaces is rearranged?

Organized by Audio Visual Pavilion
Curated by Audio Visual Pavilion (Inyong An, Seewon Hyun)
Supported by Art Council Korea

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