Airy Navigation
2022

Aluminum venetian blinds, powder-coated aluminum and stainless steel hanging structure, steel wire rope, LED tubes, cable

813 x 406 x 806 cm

Collection of Hotel Naru Seoul, Seoul

Photo: Glimworkers

 

Airy Navigation is a site-specific installation for the twentieth-floor atrium in Hotel Naru, Seoul. Consisting of eighty blinds in four different colors and resembling an unfurling staircase, the work soars in a diagonal course across the three-story space. The structure of the work, gradually unfolding in concert with the ascending height, draws the viewer’s gaze to the water of “Mapo Naru” beyond the glass windows of the hotel lobby. While the wooden ferry boats sailing up and down the Mapo Naru, once a significant site of trade and transportation, are long gone, the term “Naru (river port)” and the dynamic assembly of blinds invites us to recollect the bustling past scenes of the Mapo area. The blinds that are connected at varying heights float in the air like a ship in full sail navigating up the river. Composed of different colors, the intersecting groups of blinds create a constantly changing effect as they organically overlap and transform according to the viewer’s shifting perspectives. When looking up from the lobby, the combination of the gradated colors and the net-like shape created by the blinds creates a sensation of activating movement. Airy Navigation combines the subtle tones that emanate from the local natural elements of river, sky and land, embracing the light that pours in through the building’s large windows and melts into the flow of the seasons.

 

 

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