Karolina BREGUŁA (ur. 1979)

Street

2013
pigment print, Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 g, 100 x 150 cm,
signed, dated and described on the reverse,
edition: 1/5 + 2 a.p.

The work is an allusion to problems related to the conservation of new-media artworks. The collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (MOCA), South Korea, features a work by Nam June Paik - The More, The Better. For some time now, the giant sculpture, which is made of 250 television sets, has required regular maintenance and repair. Because no method for handling the problem has been found yet, the Museum organised a conference to comment on the issue. The resultant publication suggests that one of the solutions might be to dismantle the installation and store it in the museum`s warehouse.
The Street is an enactment of the fictitious removal of some of the work from the Museum. The main character is a man pulling a trolley full of broken TVs. The scene brings to mind Korean streets, where similar trolleys are used for collecting waste paper. The other characters are figures inspired by scenes from Korean masterpieces, like Listening to the Nightingale on Horseback by Kim Hong-do or the film The Meaning of 1/24 Seconds by Kim Ku-Lim.
The work was created in partnership with the National Art Studio, Changdong - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul and is a product of a UNESCO residence with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul.


estimate: 5000 - 7000 zł