Dark Water heads south

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

Dark Water at Princes Wharf

Dark Water: the Antipodes Project can be viewed at Princes Wharf on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 April from 12.00 to 6.00pm and then at Starkwhite's Project Space from 23 April to 14 May 2009.
Images: Cho Duck Hyun, Dark Water: the Antipodes Project, 2009, salvage shots and installation views, Princes Wharf, Auckland, NZ.

Dark Water: the Antipodes Project

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