The Rose of Sharon, Bloomed

20 Pigment Prints, 51x76cm
Live Performance, 5 Participants with Color Headlamps in Public
Installation, Video Projection onto Pigment Print with sound, Dimension Variable
Installation, Computer, Live CCTV, Video Projection onto Print and Sound, Dimension Variable

The Rose of Sharon, Bloomed #1-1, #1-2, #1-3, #1-4
The Rose of Sharon, Bloomed #2-1, #2-2, #2-3, #2-4
The Rose of Sharon, Bloomed #3-1, #3-2, #3-3, #3-4
The Rose of Sharon, Bloomed #4-1, #4-2, #4-3, #4-4
The Rose of Sharon, Bloomed #5-1, #5-2, #5-3, #5-4

Korea: ‘무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다’ (The rose of sharon bloomed)
Japan: ‘だるまさんがころんだ’ (The Daruma Fell Over)
Czech: ‘Cukr, káva, limonáda, čaj, rum, bum’ (Sugar, Coffee, Lemonade, Tea, Rum, Bang)
Poland: ‘Raz, dwa, trzy, Baba Jaga patrzy’ (One, two, three, Baba Yaga is looking)

The Rose of Sharon, Bloomed is an interactive performance that captures the movement and light during a popular children’s game called “Red Light, Green Light” which is often played in many countries with different names.

depicts 20 times of the game with long-exposure shots and videos. Jihyun Kim, a choreographer based in New York, created a choreography that symbolizes the appearance of a rose of sharon with five petals. She directed five dancers with different dance styles and nationalities to approach the tagger with their own choreography. The dancers’ headlamps have five colors that precisely divide the color space into five equal parts. There are four different winners when there are five taggers in the game. 5×4 = 20, 20 pictures are the series of The Rose of Sharon, Bloomed.

The photographs taken with a long exposure and videos taken at the same time are the most important materials for the artist’s work. In the same frame, hundreds of pieces of light mixed in order and direction cause audiences to clash with old beliefs and new experiences. The vivid rules created by the artist and the ambiguity caused by the movements of the human are violently encountered in the photographs and installations of the same source.