TRANSLATERAL LANDSCAPES



Landscape is still one of the main motifs in art history and a popular subject in contemporary art. Translateral Landscapes takes the artistic involvement with landscape and surrounding(s) as a starting point and questions them in terms of their spatial, aesthetic and social structures. Particular emphasis lies on the concept of the background – as an aesthetic dimension (in a picture, a room or a projection) and as a social, political and cultural scope of events. Landscape is not a mirror image of reality, but always comes with a particular configuration of the subject; pictures of landscapes focus on a specific perspective. Anne Quirynen and Hong Soun address such fragments, parts and scenes in landscapes that remain unnoticed and yet create special connections and coincidences with social, historical and cultural events. In terms of a “visual conversation” the artists invoke different perspectives and points of view on the creation of truth and reality of social landscapes.



Anne Quirynen’s work reflects the arbitrariness and the dubitative quality of digital images by addressing the historicity and perception effects of the dispositifs of visualization. The 2-channel video installation Venus Mission brings together panoramic images of a disused copper mine Rio Tinto in Spain and the astronomical exploration of the planet Mars and mirrors them until they have become indistinguishable.



Hong Soun’s work provides a collection of partial and fragmented landscapes as they show the fragments and pieces that make up the whole: objects and events that remain unnoticed, since they take place in the background or are engaged in processes of constant change. His latest work adresses pictures of the sinking ferry Sewol which capsized on April 16, 2014 near the island of Jindo, carrying 476 people.



What is the background and what is the surface of our truth and our reality? How do pictures arise in our collective memory? What role does our memory play in constructing the images of our presence and our future?



The exhibition is divided into two cycles, in which each artist will be represented with one work in the exhibition of the other artist. The dialogue is accompanied by an artist talk during Berlin Art Week.




Hong Soun

OPENING Sep 9, 2016, 7pm

EXHIBITION Sep 10 – Sep 23, 2016



Anne Quirynen

OPENING Sep 30, 2016, 7pm

EXHIBITION Oct 01 – Oct 13, 2016



Artist Talk : Capturing Social Landscapes

Sep 14, 2016, 7-9pm









Hong Soun

Hong Soun was born in Seoul, Korea in 1959. He graduated in Art Education at Busan National University, Busan, Korea and studied at the École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The focus of his artistic practice has been evolved around the philosophical idea on “part and whole” of politics, economy, and culture and includes painting as well as video, installation and sculpture.
His work has been shown in international museums such as the National Hangeul Museum (Seoul), the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Gyeonggi-do), the Songzhuang Art Center (Beijing), Lounge Gallery (London), Musée de l’histoire vivante (Montreuil) and is represented in numerous collections such as the Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA, and Zenith, Otto von -Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.





Anne Quirynen

Anne Quirynen was born in 1960 in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium). She studied art history in Leuven and video art at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels. Since 1993 she has been working freelance together with William Forsythe, Enno Poppe, Antonia Baehr, Marcel Beyer, Wim Vandekeybus, Julia Eckhardt and Ian Kaler.
Her films and video installations have been shown at international festivals, such as Berliner Festspiele, Forum Expanded Berlinale, International Festival of New Film (Split), Rotterdam Filmfestival, European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), World Wide Video Festival (The Hague), and Art & Video in Europe (Copenhagen), as well as in museums such as the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA (New York), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and the Nippon Cultural Centre (Tokyo).






︎ EXHIBITION
ARTIST
Hong Soun / Anne Quirynen

CURATOR
Lena von Geyso

PLACE
NON Berlin

CATEGORY
Archive