Pain Is Left After the Bite
PHILIPPZOLLINGER•Jun 07, 2024 — Jul 20, 2024
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Pain Is Left After the Bite is Young-jun Tak’s first Swiss solo exhibition at PHILIPPZOLLINGER, presenting five new sculptures. In his sculptures, installations, and videos, Tak examines human belief systems and their impact on societal and cultural structures. This exhibition investigates the power of pivotal absence in narratives and our self-efficacy on filling up the gap according to our likings, as this fundamental social cognitive function affects every detail in our lives. The exhibition title suggests that the most recognizable absence in the gallery space is teeth and tongues, haunted by (un)pleasant oral desire, the artist leads us to situations that let our perspectives determine where invisible traces are marked.
Descending through the staircase to Tak’s exhibition, viewers encounter the first sculpture, Wishful (2024), that combines a shell-shaped holy water stoup, hand-carved in Veronese rose marble, and a hyper-realistic silicone cast of the...More
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Pain Is Left After the Bite
PHILIPPZOLLINGER•Jun 07, 2024 — Jul 20, 2024
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Pain Is Left After the Bite is Young-jun Tak’s first Swiss solo exhibition at PHILIPPZOLLINGER, presenting five new sculptures. In his sculptures, installations, and videos, Tak examines human belief systems and their impact on societal and cultural structures. This exhibition investigates the power of pivotal absence in narratives and our self-efficacy on filling up the gap according to our likings, as this fundamental social cognitive function affects every detail in our lives. The exhibition title suggests that the most recognizable absence in the gallery space is teeth and tongues, haunted by (un)pleasant oral desire, the artist leads us to situations that let our perspectives determine where invisible traces are marked.
Descending through the staircase to Tak’s exhibition, viewers encounter the first sculpture, Wishful (2024), that combines a shell-shaped holy water stoup, hand-carved in Veronese rose marble, and a hyper-realistic silicone cast of the...More
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