“Gulp” Installation view ©DOOSAN Gallery
DOOSAN
Gallery presents the DOOSAN
Curator Workshop Exhibition "Gulp" by
Laure Prouvost, Elinor Haynes, and Eunsae Lee through August 10.
‘Gulp’
is the sound of connection between substance and body; the shape of an emotion
or a desire, concealed or revealed; a metaphor for the experience of coveting
that which is not our own. In this exhibition, the word “gulp” is both language
and image.
In this
movement, matter mingles with flesh, blurring the distinction between inside
and outside, subject and object, active and passive. "Gulp" develops
by analogizing this act of swallowing to the process of the viewer's reception
of the work.
Using
narratives built on concepts like travel, dislocation, and belonging, Laure
Prouvost focuses on “becoming something else.” The two video works in the
exhibition, Shed a Light (2018) and Swallow (2013), speak to the
sense of joy and claim inherent to basic human desire.
Working
toward a deeper understanding of the living organism, Elinor Haynes uses
sculpture to visually capture the intangible and malleable nature of the body.
Haynes’s sculptures bear witness to the desire of the body, porous and
permeable, to shatter the efficient grammar of machine-tech.
Eunsae
Lee's paintings are visual and material performances of female desire. Using
substances in liquid form and the bodies that covet them as her medium, Lee
captures moments of thirst and desire, filth and disgust, licking, swallowing,
and vomiting.
