Hyunsuk Yi - Phantom Limb
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Phantom limb pain is pain in a part of the body that is no longer present, usually as a result of an amputation. Most sufferers constantly remember the lost body part or its shape and posture.
The title "Phantom Limb" is a metaphor about the loss of familiar places. Constantly remembering this loss and brooding over it triggers a feeling of physical and emotional discomfort. The place has been lost, leaving confusion and a loss of identity. How is one to free oneself from the resulting pain, which is equally physical and palpable?
Hyunsuk Yi compensates for the phantom pain of her lost homeland, the loss of her places and spaces by collecting materials, as well as consciously remembering the past.
Her practical work and her working process are first and foremost about remembering. This examination of memory and its structures is intended to create an archive: since 2013, Hyunsuk Yi's artistic work has dealt with the memory of places in varying media (film, video installation, archive, photography and text). In the work Phantom Limb, she combines her texts on the subject with a video performance.
Hyunsuk Yi studied industrial design, film and media art. The artist focuses on archive-based experimental film and video works. She experiments not only with her personal memories of places, but also how our body perceives a place. She focuses on this relationship and interaction between memory, place and body, and delves into the subject through repetition of different media. In 2021-22, she was awarded the NEUSTART KULTUR- Sonderförderprogramm scholarship.
The presentation of her Muthesius project "Phantom Limb" will travel to the CICA Museum in Gimpo Korea in 2023.
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