Ripple
CAN - Centre d'art Neuchâtel•Feb 15, 2025 — Apr 13, 2025
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Ripple is a solo exhibition by Korean artist Hwayeon Nam, presenting four video works that explore specific objects and subjects from Korean history. Nam traces the circulation of information and knowledge through the body, music, dance, and digital data, visualising it through expanded “choreographic” methods. This immaterial mapping process reveals the ripple caused by fissures in history as these fragments traverse through time and space.
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Ripple
CAN - Centre d'art Neuchâtel•Feb 15, 2025 — Apr 13, 2025
Press Release
Ripple is a solo exhibition by Korean artist Hwayeon Nam, presenting four video works that explore specific objects and subjects from Korean history. Nam traces the circulation of information and knowledge through the body, music, dance, and digital data, visualising it through expanded “choreographic” methods. This immaterial mapping process reveals the ripple caused by fissures in history as these fragments traverse through time and space.
1
Throbbing Dance explores the transposition of a North Korean dance inspired by the film Flashdance (1983), shifting from capitalist individualism to socialist ideology. Nam revisits this process within the South Korean context of the 2000s, creating a new choreography centred around the concept of “throbbing”, influenced by online music videos. This evolution of an 1980s American symbol into a Korean phenomenon reveals the cultural and political dynamics of its reinterpretations.
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