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Yellow Security Line
The Yellow Security Line not only appeared in the “Stability” performance video, but also appeared in the gallery performance and even in my previous work, “Normative Landscape 3”. When I was taking the performance video, I wanted the performance end up with this creature hesitating to cross this yellow caution line in front of the financial center. And when I was having a group show at the gallery, “THE WURKS”, I installed it at the entrance blocking people’s pathway slowing down their steps. The entrance was also surrounded by the yellow lines. They became the starting point and the end point of the performance. The reason I insisted on this was that I thought these yellow lines could show our ambivalent feelings about wanting to be in the secure bubble while craving for change and challenge outside of the bubble.



Exhibition   

                             
Posters designed by Koh
  
   
   
 











Excerpt from

Eunhyung Chung:
Trailing the Defensive Shell


Interviewed by Megan Solis

MS: Thinking of emotionality, your sculptures seem to be crossing a point of both a defensive shell, yet poignant vulnerability. What are your thoughts on these descriptions?

EC: I like your view of  my sculpture as a defensive shell. Since I tend to care a lot about others’ gaze, I didn’t want my body to be exposed. When I was out of my body, I could eventually free myself from others’ judgement and social restrictions. I found something interesting in that I kept hiding my identity as a woman. I had thought a human could be a neutral man. As you said, my sculpture was armor or a shell to hide and free myself from the other’s gaze. It is very satisfying to me when a human’s anxiety or “poignant vulnerability” is revealed through the performance. I remember one viewer told me that when I finally removed myself from the costume by pushing the top half of the sculpture off of my body, she was touched by the steam that was released. I think that was the best moment in this performance because it enabled the audience to connect and sympathize with my struggle and anxiety, rather than just the humor.