One After Another
allitmespace, Seoul
November 1 - 28, 2019
After Monday comes Tuesday. Then, passing through Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Monday begins again. This sequential arrangement forms a rhythmic unit that, when repeated, constructs the customary twelve-month cycle of time. Letters adhere to one another according to several rules to form words, and when these clusters are arranged sequentially according to a user’s intent, they become sentences. These sentences, in turn, are systematically compiled within a physical framework, ultimately forming books or manuscripts. This implicitly agreed-upon linear system is determined by socio-cultural conventions—often invisible, yet defining or constraining the meaning and form of the elements within it.
In everyday objects, we can easily find functionally optimised systems of arrangement or bundling—eggs are packaged in standardised trays for efficient consumption, and manuscript paper limits the number of words per page. Jiyoung Yoo questions the chain of structures that objects naturally accept to acquire or maintain their utility. By introducing arbitrary modifications to the placement of each element, she makes these issues visible. This process is guided by certain hypotheses: What happens when a part of an entity escapes from its designated mold? When the belief in the continuity of listed contents is partially disrupted, what are we then able to see?
_Jihyung Park (independent curator)