CARVALHO PARK announces the inaugural United States exhibition of Korean artist, Jaiyoung Cho, with the opening of her solo exhibition Body & Bodies. The show comprises an expansive sculpture installation, formerly presented by the Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul, surrounded by her latest series of paper and metal wall sculptures. The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by So-La Jung, Curatorial Director, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). Body & Bodies will open on Saturday, February 3, in the gallery’s newly expanded exhibition space at 110 Waterbury Street in Brooklyn, on the occasion with the fifth anniversary of CARVALHO PARK.
Cho sets her stage with an assembly of standing, geometrically shaped metal structures – the human body distilled – each affixed with a kaleidoscopically facetted, paper sculpture. Figural in scale, these meticulously crafted, polyhedral components carry associations of heads and limbs, proliferated and sequenced after our own chemical structures. Here materiality inherently mirrors the human condition, paper and metal echoing fragility and strength. Cho invites her audience to circle the installation, and in doing so, the ‘bodies’ enter a state of flux; they fracture and overlap in a process of replication and transformation. The surrounding environment thus enters the work, and the alignments that form – as space, viewer, and the individual and collective ‘body’ entwine – refute concepts of isolation, while also piercing hierarchical convictions of humans as the universal center.
| Hours | Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12:00 PM - 6:00 PMAnd By Appointment |
| Venue | Carvalho Park |
| Type | Design Exhibition |
| Duration | 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| City | Brooklyn |
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Carvalho Park
A visually distinctive program features emerging artists reconsidering the distinctions between disciplines and expanding the language of form. A synthesis of the directors’ backgrounds in architecture and the performing arts, exhibitions work to activate the viewer’s environment and to shift context and categorization, allowing objects to move freely in and across the art and design landscapes.
