Heech studio installations rejoice the 30 years of Korean Pavilion
A part of the Korean pavilion at 2025 Venice BiennialTime for Heechan Park + Studio Hech bushes presents various areas installations and detection gadgets that mark the 30th anniversary of the pavilion. The mission explores the evolutionary relationship between the structure of the Korean pavilion and the encompassing bushes of the Giardini della biennial, falling this interplay by means of visible, auditory and spatial means.
The installations, “A Shadow Caster”, “Giardini Travellers” and “Elevation Fuel 1995”, capabilities as statement instruments, providing a framework to understand how the pavilion coexists with its pure environment over time. Substring the preliminary integration of the flag on the location with out shifting any tree, the mission highlights the lengthy -term coexistence of the constructed kind and panorama. As an alternative of treating the structure as being separated by nature, the set up acknowledges each equal elements within the house composition of Giardini. Developed by means of collaborations with numerous Korean workshops, the work displays on the logistics and implications of worldwide constructing exhibitions. It additionally addresses the broader circumstances of biennial manufacturing, positioning the mission each as chargeable for the location and as a globally linked. Not like the closed typology of the exhibition areas with white cubes, the Korean pavilion stays visually and spatial in its environment. Inside services are designed to work together with environmental circumstances, resembling mild, shadow and sound, strengthening the position of time and place within the expertise of structure.
Time for bushes celebrates the 30 years of the Korean Pavilion | All the photographs of Yongjoon Choi until in any other case mentioned
Tree time presents three site-specific house installations
“A Shadow Caster” is a spatial set up particular to the location that permits guests to learn and expertise the shadows thrown by the bushes across the Korean pavilion. The work captures the fashions, shades and delicate actions of the encompassing setting, evolving over time, seasons and altering weather conditions. Guests expertise the connection the Korean pavilion has with the vegetable and topographic circumstances
Created by Studio Hech’s group In collaboration with a wooden processing retailer and a steel workshop at Seoul, “Giardini vacationers” are structural and modular architectural gadgets created for occasions and rituals particular to the Venice Biennale. Passing by means of totally different nationwide pavilions in Giardini, they discover and rejoice the wealthy and intriguing tales concerning the surrounding bushes and the pure setting. These adaptable modular reinforcements can perform as statement bridge, scale, financial institution, residence space for guests, scene for particular occasions or a framework for momentary exhibitions. Particularly, on this exhibition, they’re used as a scale and financial institution, permitting guests to expertise tales created by relationships with the bushes round. “Giardini vacationers” stays an “artwork work” that, even within the 21st century, should be created by the opposite facet of the globe and begin on an extended journey to Venice. It serves each as a ritual tribute, in addition to a essential investigation into the efforts and dedication of those that create nationwide pavilions yearly, in addition to the lengthy -term historical past and traditions.
The “elevated gases 1995” is impressed by the citation “the free independence of the human gaze, associated to the human face by such a free twine, as lengthy, as elastic that it may be wandered, because it might,” from “Marcel Proust” looking for time, in Swann’s path. On this passage, the human gaze strikes freely and independently, experiencing its environment. By way of this piece, the guests transcend the bounds of their very own eyes, rising above to take the panorama and the sounds of bushes and forests. The lengthy -term story created by the equal symbiosis of the structure and the bushes in Giardini is reinterpreted and shared with the guests by means of the “elevated gases 1995.” The title of the exhibition, “Time for bushes”, is predicated on Sufi Boise’s essay from the identical title in Overview Structure (April 2023).
The mission explores the connection between structure and the bushes round Giardini
Three key installations body the dialogue between the constructed kind and panorama
“A Shadow Caster” captures the motion and seasonal adjustments in tree shadows
Guests have interaction with environmental fashions created by close by bushes