Commissioned by Arts Council England & Bloomberg Philanthropies & Bridget Riley Art Foundation & Government Art Collection & Korean Cultural Centre & Embassy of Spain London & Embassy of Sweden London & Czech Center
at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite Museum, Colchester, UK, 15 July - 31 October, 2021
at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, London, UK, 10 December - 20 February, 2022
at Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, London, UK, 10 December - 20 February, 2022
Japanese Kusozu, Maori warriors' Haka, Mongolian throat chant, Tibetan sky burial, pandemic news, and abandoned body, a dead women, one white dog, one yellow dog, two black crows and an empty garden.
Here is the video scroll generated by Artificial Intelligence, the garden of continual transformations wheeling between generative life, expansion, and growth, and erosion, death, and decay.
The empty garden might conceal from us the truth that our own lives participate in these processes.
But, TS Eliot asked "That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?"
Jinjoon Lee, Empty Garden, 2021. Single channel video and sound installation, 02'00"
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Artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
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Arts Council England
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Bridget Riley Art Foundation
Government Art Collection
Korean Cultural Centre
Embassy of Spain London
Embassy of Sweden London & Czech Center