In Cho Duck Hyun's 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.
The original container was unearthed at the 1994 São Paulo Biennial after seemingly having travelled from Seoul. After featuring in Living Room 09: My heart is where my home is (curated by Pontus Kyander) and then Starkwhite's Project Space, Dark Water: The Antipodes Project is travelling to Dunedin. (Watch the Dunedin Public Art Gallery website for further information on the Dunedin leg of the journey.) Later it will continue its journey to another antipode, Liverpool, UK. Click here for shots of Dark Water surfacing at Auckland's Princes Wharf.
Images: Cho Duck Hyun, Dark Water: The Antipodes Project, 2009, Princes Wharf, Auckland. Photographs courtesy of the artist
