The Hydrology Project, 2023
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Glass, stainless steel square bars, water tanks, electric devices
170x100x40cm
The Hydrology Project reminds viewers of the sculptural process through which Euyoung Hong explores the material changes and forms freely crossing the border between the sphere of the invisible and the visible. This work, designed to collect air and change it into water which is, in turn, guided through a series of distillation processes, does not seek to explain the narration about the cycle of water but to attain sculptural perception and understanding of a certain random material or form which exists, in the three-dimensional world, in a state of uncertainty and lack of transparency, extending to the sculptural concept that continued to expand during the last century.
Installation at Daecheongho Museum of Art, Cheongju
The title of this paper, Raising up What Is Transparent and Thin, is related to the sculptural perception. Considering the efforts of modern sculptors who sought to approach “the existence of uncertainty” proven by the reality of three-dimensionality as well as the classical realization of the ideal of sculpture using large, hard and heavy materials marked by comprehensive and clear outlines, the experience we have whenever we face an incomplete reality which presupposes that no one can completely see its whole is connected with the perception and recognition of Negative Landscape presented by Euyoung Hong.