Past Residents
Past Resident2010: GyeongGi Cultural Foundation
Sungyeon Park
Sungyeon Park graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London, UK with a MA in Fine Art in 2007 and a MFA at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea in 2001. Park’s subjects come from small voices within ordinary lives and are concerned with social issues related to visual language and individual experience. Park has received several grants including an Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2006. She had a solo show in 2009 titled still lives; small voices by Arts Council Korea and GyeongGi Cultural Foundation. Park participated in the Art Omi International Artist Residency in New York.
Sungyeon Park, Whispering Wall, 2009, Sound installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, On Her Own Birthday, 22 October 1941, 2008, Video, 3:48 min. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, Her Grey Hair, 2007, Handmade wooden brush and video, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Sungyeon Park, still lives; small voices, 2010, Video installation, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist an Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Sungyeon Park, The Girl I left Behind Me, 2009, Bricks and sound installation, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from South Korea
Past Resident2010: IKEA Foundation Switzerland
Alexandra Navratil
Alexandra Navratil´s work examines historical and political concepts of perception and their correlations with systems of representations in cinema, architecture and politics. Her works in various media such as photography, collage and video, are deliberate constructions, which attempt to undermine the authority of the image by questioning the means and mechanisms of its production and the codes of its representation. These underlying structures are made visible within the works. Alexandra Navratil (Zürich, Switzerland, 1978) graduated with an MFA from Goldsmiths College in London in 2007. In 2009 she won the Swiss Art Award and the Prix Mobiliere Young Art and has been artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (IMMA). She has recently exhibited her work at Formcontent, London; Lothringer13/Laden, Munich; MUSAC, León and Galeria Angels, Barcelona among others.
Alexandra Navratil, A Fraction Of A Second Earlier, 2009, Video, 2:00 min. Courtesy of the artist
Alexandra Navratil, The Searchlights That Dazzled The Stars, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist
Alexandra Navratil, Time Lags In Real Time, 2010, Wood, mirrors, b/w prints, and fluorescent tubes, 118 × 118 × 71 in. (299.72 × 299.72 × 180.34 cm). Courtesy of the artist and SKOR (Inkijk) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alexandra Navratil, L’Emploi Rationnel, 2010, Work in progress pigment prints, 311/2 × 351/2 in. (80.01 × 90.17 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Alexandra Navratil, L’Emploi Rationnel, 2010, Work in progress pigment print, 63 × 441/8 in. (160.02 × 112.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Residents from Switzerland
Past Resident2010: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Aihua Hsia
Aihua Hsia’s work challenges the notions of boundaries and containment within the human psyche. She explores the collective unconscious by revealing the presence of a shared human essence. Through the employment of the ancient Buddhist sculpture technique, “Datsukanshitu,” Hsia incorporates her Chinese roots, the natural world, and the traditional past into her work. Hsia’s work has been nationally and internationally exhibited at Gifu Municipal Culture Center, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan; and 2 x 13 Gallery, New York. Aihua Hsia was born in Taipei Taiwan in 1973, and received a BFA in Sculpture at National Taiwan University of Arts and an MFA in Sculpture at Okinawa Prefecture University of Arts.
Aihua Hsia, Between Dream and Dark, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 118 × 36 × 2 in. (299.72 × 91.44 × 5.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Warabi Hime, 2004, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 59 × 114 × 271/2 in. (149.86 × 289.56 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Between Dream and Dark – Fairy, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, and wood, 271/2 × 75 × 171/2 in. (69.85 × 190.5 × 44.45 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, Meiden and Asura, 2010, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, and wood, 391/2 × 981/2 × 271/2 in. (100.33 × 250.19 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Aihua Hsia, From Forest, 2007, Natural lacquer, gold leaf, wood, and mineral pigment, 118 × 821/2 × 231/2 in. (299.72 × 209.55 × 59.69 cm). Courtesy of the artist
