Scoring the Words
Young In Hong, Prayers No.1-39
The show was held until 2022/11/20 at Seosomun Main Branch
YoungIn Prayers
Audio Guide
Description of the Artwork
This work takes a photo archive of Korea’s modern and contemporary history as a starting point. The archives she used in the work are related to the urban landscape of Korea during the modernization and the history of resistance for freedom. In this work, the artist selects partial silhouettes in photos depicting specific events and situations, creating embroidery in very simple lines. Through this process, the image as a specific event captured in photo documentation is re-described as a ‘photo-score.’ Each embroidered stitch of a drawing becomes a musical note while intersecting threads become a score to play an event. The bodies of the crowd that reacted to the event, gunpowder smoke, and slogans take different forms of lines, notes, and sheet music. They spread out as they become songs and scores for words that reinterpret the event.