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Table Opera, 2016 (2024 version)

HD single channel video, color, sound, 14′ 50″ LED screen 405×200cm, speaker/ headphone, Time-collapsed subtitles

Installation view at the site of a presumed ancient city and its remains

Table Opera(2016) features a female narrator reciting the nine lines of the 14th-century Chinese ancient poem Hunluntuzan, which encapsulates the understanding of the universe and the earth.

In previous presentations of Table Opera, the video was accompanied by Chinese narration, with subtitles limited to the title and production information, adhering to the original intent. However, this exhibition includes “Time-collapsed subtitles” written on a surface outside of the video as simultaneous captions, allowing viewers to experience a parallel sense of time. On the table, a series of commotions unfold: it begins with a single object drawing a circle and returning to its destination. The artist manually adjusts the lens's depth, intentionally blurring the camera focus, and captures the series of processes in real time without editing. 

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<Open-Air Museum Pungnap> Exhibition View

Aug. 16. 2024 - Oct. 13. 2024

Bukseoul Art Museum  Pungnap 1-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Korea curated by Hyein Kwon

© Photo / Bhang Youngmoon, Choi Haeri

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Grand Amour Fou 그랜드 아무르 푸  2022

130 x 194cm, Oil on canvas

Kula Ring: Archipelago of Stories 쿨라 링: 이야기 군도 Exhibition View, Sep.15 - Oct. 29. 2023, Factory2, Seoul, Korea

(below) detail of left

This painting borrows the genre concept of 'Amour Fou' from the 19th century French literary trend to the modern cinema, obsessively observing and persuading the relationship between the precarious position of the viewer and the perspective of visible object. With wrong horizon, this grand table revisits Rococo and the still life genre of European modern art history, and brutally rearranges the viewer's perspective with an eccentric moving viewpoint.

© Choi Haeri © Photo / Son Hyunjoo

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Nageire in Plum Rains 장마(梅雨)에 나게이레  2022 130 x 194cm, Oil on canvas

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This painting depicts an equivocal temporality in which time stops all at once by densely throwing various flowers, plants, and vegetables on the waves of painterly brush strokes that are expressed quickly and boldly. This refers to an ambivalent state by substituting the painted permanence(永遠) for randomness and improvisation like throwing flowers(Nageire 投げ入れ of Ikebana), the most spontaneous act of the moment.  (top) Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age   다시 그린 세계: 한국화의 단절과 연속

Exhibition View, Oct. 28. 2022 - Jun. 08. 2023 Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

© Choi Haeri, Ilmin Museum of Art © Photo / Son Hyunjoo, (사)서울특별시미술관협의회가 서울시 보조금을 지원받아 촬영한 사진입니다.

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Re;side Exhibition View, Dec. 20 - 31. 2022, Suwon Art Space Gwanggyo, Suwon, Korea

Diptych: Rocaille describing a sphere, Pendulum turning a cone 2022

딥티크: 구체를 묘사하는 로카이유, 원뿔을 돌아서는 펜듈럼  2022

194×260(130×2pc)cm, Oil on canvas

© Choi Haeri 

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Triptych: Damask Hour  2022

트립틱: 다마스크 시간  2022

(each)

130×97cm, Oil on canvas

130×89cm, Oil on canvas

130×80cm, Oil on canvas

© Choi Haeri 

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Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age  다시 그린 세계: 한국화의 단절과 연속 Exhibition View

Oct. 28. 2022 - Jun. 08. 2023 Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

(사)서울특별시미술관협의회가 서울시 보조금을 지원받아 촬영한 사진입니다.

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(above left) Bamboo in Snow, Plum Blossom in Summer,                       Orchid in the Cold in Zero Gravity Seen from All Directions 2016 

                      ink and colors on korean paper, pigment, silk mounting 

                      210x117x4(h)cm

(above right) Table Opera 2016 

                        HD single channel video, 14’ 50”, color, sound

The female voice of this video work explains the understanding of the universe and earth in the 14th-century Chinese poem. The narration is synchronized with the fiction for ceramic in the form of a woman. The fiction was specifically animated epic in another video work in the same lounge. This poem was recorded with the voice of an actress from Sichuan(四川, China), who mimics a Taiwanese accent. The painting displayed next to the video embodies the earth’s climate at one whack without the passage of time.

© Choi Haeri

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Turtle Hair and Moss Dots  거북털과 이끼점  2018

145 x112 cm, Oil on Canvas

(middle, below) 

Painting Ⅰ   회화 Ⅰ   繪畫 Ⅰ   2021 Installation view

© Choi Haeri

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Collecting for All  모두의 소장품 Exhibition View

Group Exhibition Apr. 16 - Jun. 14.  2020

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

more info. (eng, kor)

© Choi Haeri, Seoul Museum of Art © Photo / Kim Kyoungtae

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Hwe 훼 虺  2020 Exhibition View

90 x 60cm, Colors on Japanese paper

© Choi Haeri

Commissioned by Seoul Museum of Art, Korea

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ECCENTRICITIES OF INANIMATION: 無生物動畫 무세에부츠도오에  Solo Exhibition Oct. 25 - Dec. 8.  2018 CHAPTERII, Seoul, Korea 

 more info. (eng, kor)

 © Choi Haeri © Photo / Kim Sangtae 

  Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Organized by CHAPTERII

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ECCENTRICITIES OF INANIMATION: 無生物動畫 무세에부츠도오에 

Exhibition view 

Oct. 25 - Dec. 8.  2018 CHAPTERII, Seoul, Korea 

© Choi Haeri © Photo / Kim Sangtae

Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Organized by CHAPTERII

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Rabbit Horn 토끼의 뿔  2018

 colors and ink on silk, pigment, painted wood

79.5 x 58cm

 © Choi Haeri

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Purchased documents from old bookstore 2018 Exhibition view

an anonymous etching, a nameless woodblock print, an etching printout, vintage cover paper, handwriting memos, stone pigment

77.5x92.7cm

  © Choi Haeri

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ARTSPECTRUM 2016  Exhibition View

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul , Korea May. 12 - Aug. 7.  2016

 © Choi Hae-ri © Photo /  Kim Hyunsoo, Jeong Jinwoo

Supported by Samsung Foundation, Korea

The East Asian ancient-art theme has appropriated by 6 paintings(a.k.a. monoliths). They are juxtaposed with a replica (historic master's work of 17th) and the ancient museum collections in an imitated lounge. The video work (“Cosmic Saga with the Greenish and the Tails”) based on a literature by the Brothers Grimm intermixed in multilingual dialog and sound. Non-human view of this video is synchronizing with large paintings. And the lounge observes the point where the past and present mingle or veer.

라운지는 과거 동아시아 예술의 논제를 전유해 재해석한 모노리스라 불리우는 대형회화들과 17세기 미술작품의 복제품을 현재 미술관의 고미술품들 컬렉션 옆에 나란히 놓아 고대 예술장르를 허구적 맥락이자 무대에 위치시킨다. 또한 라운지 안에 설치된 영상 (“녹색을 띤, 꼬리를 지닌 우주모험담”)은 그림형제의 문학에서 기초한 서사가 각색되어 다국어 대화와 소리로 뒤섞이는데, 보는 주체가 비인간인 이 영상작업은 과거 예술의 형식주의적 이상을 우회해 이를 재정의한 회화들과 연동한다. 그리고 무대화된 이 라운지는 과거와 현재가 혼용되며 시간적 위계가 바뀌는 지점들을 조망한다.

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Weakly Interacting Massive Furry Matter 희미하게 연동하는 둔중한 털물질

HD video screening (running time: 30′), wearable costume-sculpture, 2-4 performers, packed foods, mixed media 2017

Jukjeon Outdoor Concert Hall, Gyeonggi, Korea 

Oct. 28. 2017

© Choi Haeri © Photo / Pop Con

  Commissioned by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea Curated by Kim Junghyun <Change Nothing>

        Weakly Interacting Massive Furry Matter (TEASER) 

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Palimpsest  2017

110 x 73.3 cm, Digital C-Print 

© Choi Haeri