Walk With Eyes Closed
Visual Arts
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When artist Kyung Hwa Shon walks a city, a unique practice of hers, she explores it through an imagined character, a phantom – ‘Stillman’. A sense of otherness emerges as she walks with it, which stimulates her imagination beyond the sole reliance on vision, expanding it into bodily consciousness. The sensual touch that she gains from the spaces becomes an understanding of the living organism and personality of a city, standing apart from herself. Through the physical quest of walking, she observes with an open heart and mind, and sometimes closed eyes. An accelerated exchange between the reality and the perceptions of Kyung Hwa’s walks produces the integral elements of her rich and powerful graphic works – the lines, shapes, and colours that are woven into her code and system of a city and that are translated into both the familiar and the alien. This reformed interaction with the world enlarges the conception of space and the space of conception. ‘Our soul is an abode. And by remembering “houses” and “rooms”, we learn to “abide” within ourselves’. Here, Gaston Bachelard points out the importance of psychological spatial existence. Particularly in a contemporary era that is filled with urban cacophony and tech profusion, we connect more with ourselves by creating mental space away from reality, walking with eyes closed, and mind-wandering into reverie, repose, or our own city of imagination. Igniting our inner curiosity, finding peacefulness, and staying mindful probably does not require a six-week meditation retreat. Instead, we might just take a little walk.
Artist：Kyung Hwa Shon
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2019" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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