My work engages in a practice of discovering new possibilities in inefficient actions and seemingly meaningless behaviors. I create objects that act as representatives of the body or as obstacles, and I perform movements either personally or in the form of kinetic loops using motors. I measure the erosion or wear of minute details, even in a handful of dust, crafting installation scenes that are neither strict nor perfect. The sculptures begin to form a space between language and non-language through shapes derived from the contours of the body, shapes that include the imprint of the body, or geometric forms using materials such as wood, iron, soil, and plaster. The performances carried out by the artist myself or by machine movements primarily respond to the conditions of space and object.
Hyoju Cheon (b. Seoul, Korea) is an explorer and interdisciplinary artist currently residing in New York. Her multimedia practice–often casting a space, an object, or a body in motion–responds to the conditions of a site. Her work documents bodies as they move through space:drawing their trajectories and archiving the material traces left behind. Hyoju has exhibited her works in Seoul at Dongsomun, Meindo, Gallery Imazoo, and Gaon Gallery; and in New York at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, the Abrons Arts Center, Half Gallery and Chashma among others.
