Hwayeon Nam
(*1979, KR)
Artist Artist
Project Project
Ripple
This exhibition is part of the Printemps Culturel Neuchâtel 2025 program, K-culture
Ripple is a solo exhibition by Korean artist Hwayeon Nam, presenting four video works that explore specific objects and subjects from Korean history. Nam traces the circulation of information and knowledge through the body, music, dance, and digital data, visualising it through expanded “choreographic” methods. This immaterial mapping process reveals the ripple caused by fissures in history as these fragments traverse through time and space.
Opening, Friday 14.02.25, 6pm
Discussion with Adeena Mey, 04.04.24, 6pm:
As part of the exhibition, curator Kyung Roh Bannwart invites researcher Adeena Mey to a discussion on Hwayeon Nam’s ‘choreography of thought’. The conversation will focus on Mey’s essay, Choreography Against Cartography. Three Movements on Nam Hwayeon, which explores key themes such as the transcultural hybridisation of art forms, the originality and ownership of cultural artifacts, or the circulation and transformation of knowledge.
Text by Adeena Mey written for the occasion of the exhibition Ripple
Supported by:
Ville de Neuchâtel, République et Canton de Neuchâtel, Loterie Romande, Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz, Fondation Bonhôte pour l’art contemporain, Fondation Ernst & Olga Gubler-Hablützel
Curator: Kyung Roh Bannwart
CAN team:
Martin Jakob, Sylvie Linder, Nicolas Raufaste, Liza Trottet, Sebastian Verdon