Participating Art Practitioners:
Liam Gillick, Goldin+Senneby,
Seung-hye Hong, Young-gyu Jang,
Jidon Jeong, Jin and Park,
Hyunseon Kang, Daum Kim,
Markus Miessen, Hyunjoon Yoo
Curated by Hyunjoo Byeon, Dokho Shin
Designed by Dokho Shin
Framing Floorplans is an exhibition in the format of printed matter that attempts at transforming Your Floorplan, a digital exhibition previously held at the Floorplan’s online platform in 2020, into a printed rendition. Your Floorplan aimed to navigate the online as an extended space for representing art and an exhibition media rather than view it as a substitute for the offline platforms. The term ‘floorplan’ was used as a trigger to unfold and develop the new concept of space for the participating art practitioners. For the online exhibition, the floorplans in their minds, assumed as a frame for envisaging space and time for art as well as the basis of creation, were manifested into various digital formats: videos, interactive images, flash animation, sound piece, novel-essay, interactive 3D object, real-time online streaming, and drawings for the VR gallery. In addition, Your Floorplan allowed for the viewers from all over the world to experience the online as a conceptual and abstract space while differentiating itself from other online exhibitions by constructing a spontaneous viewing environment in place of a linear or sequential viewing experience—as if a visitor would freely navigate around a physical space or a reader would select a part of a book they wish to read.
Following up on the online exhibition, Framing Floorplans continues to explore the means to expand the notion of space and time for art by transferring the online exhibition to paper, a traditional medium for distribution, and creating an intervention in the physical space. It shows how this exhibition reconfigures printed matter as a space. Distinguishing itself from ordinary exhibition catalogues, the primary purpose of which is exhibition documentation, Framing Floorplans focuses on displaying the printed matter as a medium for representing art while also signifying the floorplan of the graphic designer Doko Shin. Using time as its axis, Framing Floorplans manifests the process of how the artworks are presented on papers as if all the works were concurrently played on a monitor like usual offline exhibitions. Each artwork, divided into forty-six frames, inscribes their flexible and multiple auras on paper created in the context of digital yet recontextualized while being transferred; meanwhile, the architect Hyunjoon Yoo’s drawings, which highlight spatiality rather than temporality, are presented as an annex to the printed matter as a distinct gesture.
Framing Floorplans, an exhibition in the format of printed matter, places artworks that represent each artist’s understanding of space and time for art on a different framework. Also, it includes the dialogue between the curator of the project and the architect Markus Miessen about the online and offline as spaces. The curator perceives space for art as open-ended where various questions and interpretations can coexist, whereas the architect’s primary interest lies in the concept of space as a dynamic yet designable place for both encounters and conflicts. Their dialogue, in which different perspectives intersect, collide, and get mediated, seems to mirror the sequential exhibitions that have converged diverse viewpoints and translations of the participating art practitioners, curator, and designer.
The exhibition will be distributed at various art institutions and bookstores; afterwards, it will be again transferred to offline and presented as an exhibition titled Framing Spaces (working title) in Berlin in 2022.