Ellie Kyungran Heo is an artist whose practice explores socio-ecological solidarity, conflict, and coexistence through time-based media and inter-/transdisciplinary research. Attuned to the intersecting equilibria and disturbances within interspecies world-forming relationships, Heo exposes and reconfigures their complex entanglements and frictions through image, sound, text, and cross-sensory installation. Through this process, Heo’s work embodies
‘filmic assemblages’, where human and non-human elements, and presence and trace, intertwine, seeking the emergence of imagined and alternative communities.
Following graduation from the Royal College of Art in London (2015), Heo has exhibited and screened her work widely, including at the Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju; Whitechapel Gallery, London; LUX Moving Image, London; Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Alabama; Doosan Art Center, Seoul; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; and e-flux Video & Film, New York.
Heo’s moving image works are internationally distributed by LUX: https://lux.org.uk/artist/ellie-kyungran-heo.
Contact: ellie.kyungran@gmail.com
엘리 허경란은 시간 기반 미디어를 매개로 현장 조사와 학제적 연구를 수행하며 사회생태적 연대, 갈등, 공존의 역학을 탐구한다. 그는 유기적 존재들 사이를 가로지르는 균형과 교란적 흐름에 주목하고 그 얽힘과 마찰을 이미지, 사운드, 텍스트, 교차감각적 설치로 드러내어 재구성한다. 이를 통해 인간과 비인간, 존재와 흔적이 맞물리는 ‘영화적 집합체(filmic assemblage)’를 구현하며 상상적이거나 대안적인 공동체 형성을 모색한다.
2015년 영국 왕립예술대학원을 졸업한 이후, 세스 비디오브라질 현대미술 비엔날레(상파울루), 국립현대미술관(서울), 국립아시아문화전당(광주), 화이트채플 갤러리(런던), 럭스 무빙 이미지(런던), 줄 콜린스 스미스 미술관(앨라배마), 두산아트센터(서울), 얀반에이크 아카데미(마스트리흐트), 이플럭스 비디오 앤 필름(뉴욕) 등에서 작품을 전시하고 상영해 왔다.
작가의 영상 작업은 영국의 무빙 이미지 기관 럭스(LUX)를 통해 국제적으로 배급된다: https://lux.org.uk/artist/ellie-kyungran-heo.
Excerpts from notes:
2024
Knowing me leads to forgiveness,
Knowing you leads to love,
Knowing grace leads to grace.
나를 아는 것은 용서로 이어지고,
당신을 아는 것은 사랑으로 이어지고,
은혜를 아는 것은 은혜로 이어집니다.
Knowing me leads to forgiveness,
Knowing you leads to love,
Knowing grace leads to grace.
나를 아는 것은 용서로 이어지고,
당신을 아는 것은 사랑으로 이어지고,
은혜를 아는 것은 은혜로 이어집니다.
2023
Would it be possible to form a garden for plants and a garden for all beings?
Would it be possible to form a garden for plants and a garden for all beings?
2022
There is a space where the sea, land and sky merge; a space where all living beings share without borders and boundaries. Can an imaginary or ideal garden, perhaps the Garden of Eden, become a reality there?
2021
Falling Flowers are Flowers, too.
Falling Flowers are Flowers, too.
2020
Standing in the shadow of a tree in the cemetery and facing my vulnerability – my awareness of human fragility – I accept that the one I obsess over is not mine. Beings are not mine. I am not mine, either.
Empty myself. Emptiness. Something fills this void*. Resonance**.
Ineffable tenderness from the plants then descends upon me.
Standing in the shadow of a tree in the cemetery and facing my vulnerability – my awareness of human fragility – I accept that the one I obsess over is not mine. Beings are not mine. I am not mine, either.
Empty myself. Emptiness. Something fills this void*. Resonance**.
Ineffable tenderness from the plants then descends upon me.
* In Gravity and Grace (1952), Simone Weil says, ‘Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void’.
** In Listening (2007), Jean-Luc Nancy describes ‘resonance’ as the structure of a subject and of sense, which is the way of understanding the subject that ‘identifies itself by resonating from self to self, [...] one is the echo of the other, and this echo is like the very sound of its sense’.
** In Listening (2007), Jean-Luc Nancy describes ‘resonance’ as the structure of a subject and of sense, which is the way of understanding the subject that ‘identifies itself by resonating from self to self, [...] one is the echo of the other, and this echo is like the very sound of its sense’.
2018-2020
The law and common sense morality can help us to achieve a certain goodness in life, but there is a limit to how well one can live according simply to the rules. There is a passivity in this approach to living well. Can art take us further and help us to actively approach the honourable life as better beings?
The law and common sense morality can help us to achieve a certain goodness in life, but there is a limit to how well one can live according simply to the rules. There is a passivity in this approach to living well. Can art take us further and help us to actively approach the honourable life as better beings?
2017
'All' is in smAll.
'All' is in smAll.
2014-2015
The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness. […] The question is itself a manifestation of the relationship with Being. Being is essentially alien and strikes against us. We undergo its suffocating embrace like the night, but it does not respond to us. […] And if it is more than this question, this is because it permits going beyond the question, and not because it answers it. What more there can be than the questioning of Being is not some truth, but good - Emmanuel Levinas, Existence & Existents
The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness. […] The question is itself a manifestation of the relationship with Being. Being is essentially alien and strikes against us. We undergo its suffocating embrace like the night, but it does not respond to us. […] And if it is more than this question, this is because it permits going beyond the question, and not because it answers it. What more there can be than the questioning of Being is not some truth, but good - Emmanuel Levinas, Existence & Existents
Questioning other beings means paying attention to them. It is definitely good to go beyond being curious about others and opening up to otherness by seeking to understand oneself.
2011-2013
To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour - William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour - William Blake
One tiny thing is an opening to the bigger world, a start to understanding the wider whole. In other words, the most precious moment could be a bridge to convey us towards the eternal. In sharing the breath of the moment, there is a movement towards breathing together in an unlimited space.
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