Jeongmoon Choi’s Drawing in Space


Working with fine thread as her medium, Berlin-based artist Jeongmoon Choi creates these arresting installations. Displayed under blacklights, Choi’s meticulously-arranged thread patterns produce illusions of light and space — a total, enveloping visual experience for gallery visitors. Galerie Laurent Mueller, where Choi’s work is now on display, has this to say about Drawing in Space:

“The thread is coloured and used to outline or redefine the architecture of the spaces the artist invests. Drawing directly into space with her hand, the artist addresses questions about our environment, as well as about aspects of lodging and the role of nature in our urban spaces.

The drawings become project or even projection of an imaginary construction that takes form in its environment starting from a line, a thread, which represents the chronological decisions of a progression in space. The transition from a plane to a volume is just as important as the comparison between interior space for living and exterior space for living.”

See more of Choi’s work at her website here.

- Erin Saunders

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Lisha Bai

This architectural installation at the National Academy in New York City by artist Lisha Bai is titled Undulate. These illusory floor tiles add dimension and movement to an otherwise overlooked space; a traditional setting is instantly made creative and contemporary. By playing with perception, Bai is able to reimagine the floor beneath our feet as a place of artistic potential and exploration.

For more of Bai’s work, check out her website here.

- Erin Saunders

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Kristin Lucas

Kristin Lucas’s Video Checkout is an interpretation of the process by which some technologies become obsolete. Visitors to the installation are invited to “check out” VHS tapes cast in concrete, recalling the recent – but swiftly outdated – ritual of renting movies. Once a contemporary experience, the act of borrowing a video is now one of history as Lucas adds an almost archeological element through her use of material. Video Checkout forces us to ask whether the VHS tape is truly as useful as a concrete block, or whether our nostalgia for its cultural contribution still grants the medium some value; is the phase-out of the movie rental store just another point for the digital self, or a point lost for human interaction? 

See many more of Lucas’s projects at her website here, and a review of the installation here.

- Erin Saunders

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A Common Name

A Common Name’s new Geode street art project fills LA’s urban gaps with natural wonder by recalling the interior of cracked open mineral geodes. These miniature installations made of paper sculpture – like the natural phenomena they refer to – are also subject to both the forces of nature, and those passersby who wish to take home a souvenir. A Common Name writes:

 ” A parallel aspect of these “geodes” in nature and in the city is they are always unexpected treasures. You might go hunting for treasures but you generally happen upon them during your adventures or casual interaction with the environment. I enjoy the fact that many people will not notice these, but some astute people will; that these will not last forever and the weather will affect them as naturally as it might in nature. So far I’ve made twelve—several have been trashed or taken away, and one has fallen apart due to rain.”

 Visit A Common Name’s blog and website for more. And check out this enormous, completely beautiful, completely gratuitous geode.

- Erin Saunders

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