Cho Duck Hyun is presenting Dark Water: the Antipodes Project in Living Room 09: My heart is where my home is, a 7 day programme of art events in Auckland (19 - 26 April) curated by Pontus Kyander. In the Dark Water project, a container is fictitiously transported through the Earth, hoisted up from the ground or water and opened to reveal its treasure of the artist’s photo-realistic portraits and other images on canvas. It is a Wunderkammer, revealing and reflecting on the history of individuals as well as general patterns of migration.
Cho Duck Hyun’s project started in 1994 when the original container was unearthed at the São Paulo Biennial after seemingly having travelled from Seoul. Now appearing in Auckland, it has traversed the southern hemisphere, and will later continue its journey to another antipode, Liverpool, UK. After being retrieved from Auckland Harbour on 19 April Dark Water will be on display at Princess Wharf on 21/22 April from 12.00 – 6.00pm, before moving to Starkwhite’s Project Space where it will show from 23 April to 14 May 2009.
Image: Cho Duck Hyun, Dark Water: the Antipodes Project (detail), 2009
