The Unnamable Scenery
The Unnamable Scenery, including three chapters, three spaces, and three stages, is three independent and associated incidents that appropriate the structure of a dialectic tragedy. The first chapter, Stage: pornographic love is the introduction composed of photographs and objects offering threads to imaginary narratives. The second chapter, Site: Easter boys, displaying approximately 1,000 photographs, is a chronicle of incidents in an imaginary womb. The third chapter, Chorus: the spring station of melancholia, is a space for understanding the exhibition context and connoting the exhibition theme.
The first chapter,Stage: pornographic love involves a dramatic narrative with an incident beginning with a man and woman. The man’s head is covered and bound, and his body is doused with milk, and looks like a condemned prisoner or a criminal. Decapitated, the woman is pregnant and confined to a cabinet. The stage is filled with the dead and castrated. Flowers and animals in preservative liquid, a hand gripping a soap vulva, a drawing made with mashed and crushed flowers, humidity sensitive silica gel that turns from blue to pink, and an interactive electric fan whose head is cut are dramatic narrative devices.
The second chapter, Site: Easter boys is a two-year project executed in a Seoul apartment, made up of 1,000 photographs. The apartment’s interior, formed with an artificial garden, refers to the imaginary womb of the pregnant woman in the first chapter. Here, bandaged or bound male models are tinged with floral water and mature.
The third chapter, Chorus: the spring station of melancholia, is a space encompassing the entire context of the show. It consists of Place you reside, made of cement structures and mirrors; Mother’s bedclothes, made of dead flowers and gauze bandaging a wound; Father’s portrait in veil, featuring a male model covered with a mother’s bedclothes; Song by women with the tongue cut displaying decapitated women; and Erecting womb: a feast of Virgin Mary, featuring a womb-shaped ceramic and erect penis.
