Title – Avignon - Le structure du temps

April, 2007 solo exhibition at Geonhi Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Video Installation

This project explores an approach to souvenir and the structure of memory. The subject of the project was an apartment in Avignon, constructed in the 1970’s.

The government of Avignon planned to demolish the building; and so this video was filmed just before the date of the building’s demolition in 2001.

Since they wanted to use explosives to demolish the building, the doors to every room were removed. The fact that this apartment building had no doors was essential to the concept of the project.

Because there were no doors, there were also no numbers identifying the apartments; and no indication of the identity of each space.

The apartment was a kind of 3-D labyrinth, physically and psychologically. The experience of loosing myself in the apartment gave me a sensation of an overreaching, residual memory.

After filming, I edited the material to be projected onto 3 screens. These 3 screens were conceived to represent a 3-dimensional axis: one on the vertical y-axis; one on the horizontal x-axis; and the third on the z-axis, vertically situated.