autumn ahn
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solo exhibition
Installed by: Brian Zink
The collected artworks in surfaces, deal with the topographical veneer of experience, bringing together a selection of experimental pieces that explore how a performance practice builds what the complete surface could be. In the material landscapes from Ahn’s performance artwork, Voy(age)ur (2014), alongside new sculptural objects, Tiles (2019), she questions what it means to hold on to things that may already be lost and the impact that is left behind on the physical plane. Making reference to the conflicting movements within the perennial acts of building and preservation that subsequently remove the past in order to make way for the future, the artworks present the fragility of material entanglements taken out of context and out of time. Addressing the passage of time that frames our common material spaces, these pieces address the metaphysical awareness of contemporary memory as a pseudo-archaeological moment where temporal, cultural, and historical narratives collide.