By Ines Min
Jackson Pollack was criticized for his now-famous application of paint; Marcel Duchamp was grossly misunderstood during the time of Dadaism. Like artists before them, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), an internationally acclaimed web art duo of Chang and “partner in crime” American Marc Voge, endeavor to redefine their own contemporary outlet of choice: the Internet.
Seoul-based YHCHI is hosting a solo exhibition in Korea at Gallery Hyundai in Sagan-dong, central Seoul, through Nov. 7. The second show comes after a break of six years because they have been busy abroad with commissioned works from the Tate Modern in London to the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The artistic pair, who also participated in the 2003 Venice Biennale, provides a platter of complex perspective, existential importance and manic editing through Flash videos, original scores and text alone — a combination of words that is at once literary, poetic and absurdly bare.