“Bongraesan-FORMOSA Project” Poster image. ©CR Collective
CR Collective presents “Bongraesan-FORMOSA Project,” a solo exhibition by NA Hyun, on view through September 28.
NA Hyun has been continuously working on
projects that investigate the records of historical events, build archives, and
expand the reality of private perspectives. This exhibition takes an
anthropological approach, documenting and collecting data on the legendary
bulrush of Bongraesan and plants native to Formosa (Taiwan
Island) to send a warning message that the current climate crisis is nature's
counterattack on humans.
NA lived in Taiwan and has been interested
in the history of Formosa and how the indigenous people revere nature and live
in balance with it. The artist aims to bring an alternative perspective to the
reality that the ecosystem is being destroyed by humans, which paradoxically
threatens humans, by borrowing the life of the highlanders and capturing the
process and sculptural experiments in the project.
Based in Seoul, NA Hyun (b. 1970) studied
painting at Hongik University. NA has held numerous solo exhibitions at various
institutions in Korea and abroad, including the Oil Tank Culture Park (Seoul,
2021), Daegu Art Museum (Daegu, 2018), Choi & Lager Gallery (Berlin, 2016),
Sungkok Art Museum (Seoul, 2011), and Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris,
2008).
NA
has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, 2023), Museum SAN (Wonju, 2021), Kaohsiung
Museum of Fine Arts (Kaohsiung, 2018), Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, 2017), and ARKO
Art Center (Seoul, 2016). NA Hyun was awarded the Ha Chong-hyun Art Award in
2020, the Today’s Young Artist Award in 2016, and was selected as a sponsored
artist for the 2015 MMCA Korea Artist Prize.
