Heyon Han is Kunstnürnberg Featured Artist #27.
She participates in the exhibition Terra recognita at Z-Bau in Nürnberg (22. Apr – 01.Mai 2016)
Meet the artist at the Opening on 22th of April 2016, 19:30
A Certain Portable Calculator by Heyon Han
© Heyon Han
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Let’s say there’s a calculator and it has 23 handles. It needs inputs so it can create outputs.
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To make judgment on any matter that lacks logical agreement the calculator has to offer a certain system, this system increases the perception of social support – the importance of this is enough for me to bother telling you – it’s about a way of being.
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An input could be a memo that fell from the sky, it could be written without any meaningful intent. We as a certain portable calculator can make judgments with operations using inputs and outputs. This doesn’t necessarily involve evaluation, what matters is the decision making method; it opens practice to a new way of mapping.
© Heyon Han
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Mapping with desultory orientation leads us to encounter the object in a most democratic way.
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Surface persists for its histories. The surface therefore can be abandoned. Things with heavy surfaces are bound to accumulate; they need to be made lighter, or better still without surface at all. A shift then can happen reframing the form and making the surface transferrent. This shift carries the time and value of its origin, its ego, its identity; maybe memory makes you who you are. A shift from history is critical in making an artwork.
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Sculpture suggests the world that cannot be seen all at once.
© Heyon Han
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Walk for yourself
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Any moving image works as a source of light and indication of time. Being in time is like living in some other creature.
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I call history as actions. It requires effort to go through them then, what remains are holes – what I gotta do is look carefully into these and enlarge them.
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Disappointment is a great place to start: however to avoid disappointment you have to be responsible about your ear. It’s a way to have control of things that you know you can’t have control over. This is a description of the temporal moment in which you being the object hold two different horizons.
© Heyon Han
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Failure makes things worth doing, as we know there’s the nature when there’s unexpected raining nevertheless forecast. Failure is part of nature; it’s not a mistake. Showing the presence of the non-functional can liberate something.
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An error can be physically fixed.
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Meteorwrongs are the iconoclasm of meteorites. As man-made objects they managed at least once to shift one’s mind through the atmosphere.
© Heyon Han
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There are many dustless artists. I am not one.
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An obsession with milk has to be treated with extra care.
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It’s all about how you engage with the world.
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We are all familiar with these magical sticks.
(Text Heyon Han)
Heyon Han – Vita
© Heyon Han
Born on 22. April 1985 in Busan, Republic of Korea
- 2010 Hongik University. Fine Art Bachelor. Seoul, Korea
- currently living in Germany: Student at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Nürnberg
Project & Activities
- 2015 „Performance“ On Dynamics and Monuments, Kunstverein Nürnberg
- 2015 „It’s supposed to be light“ Creperie Yeched Mad
- 2015 Enlarging „The Serving Library“ Tate Liverpool
- 2014 „Walking (in) between“ Figure of Conjunction, Kunstverein Nürnberg 2014 „First Pancake“ publishing & open commentary project
- 2014 „Retreat in progress, our tent is open except when shut.“
- 2014 „Rupture Caption“ DIE VITRINE Nürnberg
- 2014 „blue screen“ Side AB, Boracay, Phillipinnes
- 2013 „Ich koche für dich“ Klassen Preis. ADBK Nürnberg
- 2012 “COMMERCIAL BREAK” OUR LINE RUNS THROUGH YOUR BUILDING, Neues Museum Nürnberg
Contact: hanheyon@gmail.com