《Gutter》

Han river, a vast gutter. Intake, treatment, supply, sewage, and discharge. The path of water determined the form of the city. Only measurable water flows into the city. The river’s landscape is managed and sustained in this framework of measurement. The artist traces the systems and their residue that quantify and control the flow of water. However, a river always flows, overflows, and evaporates without regard to us, continually reminding us that it cannot be captured in any way. What could we confront in front of something that recedes the more we try to catch it? Gutter first follows this system of measuring and managing, before arriving at moments when what the system has left behind reveals itself in the gaps of the landscape. Wooin Hong(b.1996) investigates the points where an object-conditioning structure stops being reduced to a unitary meaning or scene. She mainly dislocates the connection between image, text and sound to experiment with incoherent relationships, and incites a delay of interpretation resulting from the gap as an entry point into the work. Recently, she has focused on the way the city renders the landscape as a romantic image. She thereby constructs devices that intervene with the structure as well as the context of this polished image.