The exhibition The Future of Silence: When your tongue vanishes examines language as spoken and written, as body and mind, as the corporeal and the conceptual, and as systems and cultures. The eight artists explore the phenomena of plunder and extinction of language in the neoliberal society, the relations in understandings and misunderstandings as well as the diversity of nonverbal communications happening outside of letters. At the same time, they reveal the hierarchy and alienation created by the dominant language and the power of language directly connected to human rights as a tool for survival. The exhibition evokes these issues that permeate our everyday life, and thereby sheds new light on the reality and diversity of language, invisible but present.“Who am I and what will I be like?” Starting from the question of a tongue asking its own whereabouts, the exhibition ultimately seeks to recognize the existence that is different from oneself. Do our anxieties really come from other beings, other species and other languages? Would the anxieties be dispelled if we had only one tongue left in the future? We hope art will be able to bring some comfort to people in these difficult times.
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Jaye Moon, The Wizard of Oz
2020, lego, soho bricks, 358x307cm, commissioned by Nam June Paik Art Center
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Juho Lee & Juseung Lee, Two Different Eyes
2020, single-channel video, 10min 50sec, commissioned by Nam June Paik Art Center
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Jesse Chun, enunciating silence and
2019, graphite, silicone, wood, paint, steel trestles, dimensions variable
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Jesse Chun, voiceless consonants
2019, two-minute sound, airport speaker, steel bracket, amp
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Lawrence Lek, Geomancer
2017, single-channel HD video, 48min 15sec, courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London.
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Ji Hye Yeom, Current Layers The Manner of a Photoshopping Life
2017, moving image, 12min 16sec
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Woojin Kim, The Perfect Harmony
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Disputed Utterance
2019, 14 laser-cut dioramas, c-prints mounted on cardboard with wooden cases, 7×10×6cm, courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut / Hamburg
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Angelica Mesiti, The Colour of Saying
2015, three-channel HD video, colour, sound, 25min, courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
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Woojin Kim, The Perfect Harmony
2019, four-channel HD video, 5min 12sec
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제시 천, ⟨학습지⟩
2018, 싱글채널비디오, 7분 24초
The Future of Silence: When your tongue vanishes