Mika Rottenberg, NoNoseKnows, 2015 ©Mika Rottenberg
The first solo exhibition of media artist
Mika Rottenberg in Korea, “Mika Rottenberg: NoNoseKnows,” is being held at
HyundaiCard Storage until March 5 next year.
This exhibition features a selection of key
works from the artist’s 20-year career, showcasing her representative videos,
installations that seem to have been taken directly from her videos, and
striking kinetic sculptures depicting body parts such as fingers and lips.
Visitors will encounter a variety of works that continuously blur the line
between reality and imagination, stimulating their own creativity.
Mika Rottenberg, #22 with salad, 2020 ©Mika Rottenberg
Mika Rottenberg creates unique storylines in each of her works, often utilizing repeated body parts or everyday actions. On the second basement floor of the Storage, visitors can see video and kinetic sculptures, as well as video installations that highlight these characteristics. Her humorous yet sharp approach to visualizing the production process of goods and the relationship between the body and labor brings to the forefront the hidden capitalist system, encouraging viewers to reflect on its absurd aspects.
Mika Rottenberg, Cosmic Generator, 2017 ©Mika Rottenberg
On the
third basement floor, two video works are featured that reinterpret matter and
reality with a nonlinear perspective by distorting time and space. These pieces
metaphorically hint at the contradictory cycles of resources that can arise in
the ambiguous flow of time and space.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
