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DONG-KYOON NAM: VACANT LIVING
Installation
November 21 – December 20, 2014
Project Description
Dong-Kyoon Nam’s artistic practice is founded on basic principles of formal structure, utility, repetition, and spatial experience in time. Using mundane, often overlooked manufactured product, his work is often site-specific and marked by architecture, while recurring linear and helical motifs imply continuity and endlessness.
Nam’s sculptural installations often explore our general sense of paranoia regarding a potential breakdown in the glut of mass-produced items around us by juxtaposing, stacking, layering, and repeating objects to create assemblages of excess. For this exhibition, he relocates domestic elements from our interior environment on to the pedestal and into the frame, deliberately adopting the typical state of the gallery installation. Through this, Nam challenges and unsettles the notions of both the ‘idealized home’ and the ‘abstract’ gallery space, in an attempt to de-familiarize our customary gaze and behavioral patterns in both domestic interiors and public spaces.
Dong-Kyoon Nam currently lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada. He holds a MFA from the University of Victoria, BC in 2012. His previous exhibitions include Vacant Circumstances: this and something else, a solo exhibition at the Ace Art Inc, Winnipeg (2013), exhibitions include An Entwined Present, a two person exhibition at the Truck Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary, MB (2014), and WorkPLACE, a group exhibition at the Open Space Gallery, Victoria (2014).
Text by Lynda Gammon
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