Eun Hye Kang: "Spatial Space" @ Court Tree Collective, 371 Court Street, June 7-July 11. 2014

OPENING: SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 6-9 PM

COURT TREE COLLECTIVE  

371 COURT STREET FLOOR 2

BROOKLYN NEW YORK 11231

Exhibition Extended to July 11TH!

Friday: 3pm - 6pm / Saturday: 12pm - 6pm / Sunday: 12pm - 5pm

One block from F/G train to Carroll Street station, walk west 
on Carroll Street and turn left, third door down, look for window 
with 'Court Tree' on it. One flight up. See you there!

THE REALFORM PROJECT is proud to present its inaugural solo project. Through an open call for artist submissions and a rigorous selection process involving series founder David Gibson and venue directors of Court Tree Collective, we arrived at the winning submission by a brilliant young Korean artist named Eun Hye Kang.    

Kang works with spaces. Kang is searching to build a language of spatial expression that will equal her love of the Korean alphabet, which is characterized by a structure involving three symbols to build one complex utterance. She works syntactically, manifesting the unseen characteristics of a given space so that we can voice its structural language in a new way. As she states, "In the spaces that gave great inspiration to me, I represented the inspiration as an abstract pattern. My interest in the pattern was moved deeper into the interest in the line, the more that I focused on the “point” comprising the line. As a result, I attempted to create the work starting from the points. While working with space, I began to use the lines as a way to decompose the space. Recently, I am especially focusing on creating negative volume by using the achromatic lines, representing the space by division and proportion, and making the shape and contour. The strings give volume, movement, gravity and density. I am curious to imagine the abstract form in the empty space and actually do it in the space. I am trying to make a live op-art installation in the space with strings and build my imagination in the space."

There is a cerebral quality to Kang's installations that possesses the visitor, who can be no mere viewer. We enter a space re-imagined by Kang and it's as if we are caught in a dream from which it seems impossible to wake. The forms she creates speak to us, they have structure, and they fill space, but they do so without seeming to have apparent mass. It's as if she were presenting us with the very workings of her brain, and saying 'here, look, what is real, and what is an illusion?'