Time And Machine — Hosu Lee

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

This solo exhibition Time And Machine extends my long-term series of kinetic and sonic sculptures into a site-specific installation. The components of my earlier work Time Machine are now divided into three distinct spaces, as the title itself divides them: Time, And, Machine.

Time is a kinetic installation in which the pendulum is set moving every thirty minutes by periodic blasts of air. Its performance regulates the entire building with a repetitive, cumulative rhythm that amplifies the quotidian perception of measurable time.

Machine is located in a darkroom behind the wall, a remote infrastructural site that continuously powers the kinetic performance of the pendulum outside. The entire system operates automatically — generating compressed air, filling the air tank, regulating electricity, and turning the machines on and off according to the museum's schedule.

And is the hallways behind the curtains, the conjunction that holds the other two together. Pipelines run through these passages, delivering highly pressurized air. The audience circulates around the exhibition spaces, slipping into a rabbit hole and then returning to their reality.

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