Solo Exhibition ≪Time And Machine≫
OCI Museum, Seoul, South Korea
4/10/2025 - 5/25/2025
site-specific installation

This project investigates two distinctly different experiences of time: one that is linear, fragmented, and measurable, and another that is complex, entangled, and non-quantitative. As its title suggests, the long-term project Time Machine is literally split into two systems, Time and Machine, installed in separate rooms and joined by a third space, And.

Time is a large-scale kinetic pendulum programmed to move every thirty minutes during exhibition hours. Like an authoritative clock, it imposes its exact intervals on the audience and the building.

And consists of the hallways behind the curtains, the conjunction that holds the other two together. Pipelines run through these passages, carrying highly pressurized air from one room to the other. The audience circulates through the exhibition spaces, passing from one kind of place to the other.

Machine is installed in a dark room that resembles an infrastructural site on the city’s outskirts. Its pneumatic and electrical systems generate and sustain the pressurized force that moves the pendulum in the other room, while an acoustic system amplifies the mechanical sounds into unsettling feedback loops. Here, a linear sense of time dissolves like a distant memory, replaced by a continuous circulation of entangled forces: voltage, sound, vibration, light, and airflow. The regular clock in one room is driven by this restless machinery in the other.


Artist: Hosu Lee
Technicians: Hansoo Noh,
Minseok Yang
Sound Advisor: Unknown Kim
Photo: Seokwoo Song
Video:  Gwanhee Yoon
Critic: Jiyeon Lee
English Translation: Jimin Summer Park

OCI Curator: Sohyun Baek
Funded by OCI Young Creatives, OCI Museum, Seoul, South Korea


(ENG) Sculpting Between Time and Machine.pdf
(KOR) 시간과 기계의 틈에서 조각하기.pdf