[Press Release - March 2021] Installation view of Lau, gh-; Nothing Needs to be a Tragedy at ONE AND J. Gallery, 2021. 1. Information • Title: Lau, gh-; Nothing Needs to be a Tragedy • Artists: Haneyl Choi, Seung-Hye Hong, Park Kyung Ryul • Exhibition Dates: 25 February - 11 April 2021 • Opening Hours : Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm (Closed on Monday) • Venue: ONE AND J. Gallery (31-14 Bukchon-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03055, Korea) • Website: http://oneandj.com/ • High resolution images are available for download via the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BP1DQx6rFNxFuUFA6GrIarIEaY98MXjH?usp=sharing • Press Contact: Seoyeon Yang (
[email protected]) 1 2. About the exhibition [Lau, gh- ; Nothing Needs to be a Tragedy] Alenka Zupančič introduces an engaging point about comedy and love in her terse appendix, “Comedy and Love,” of her publication The Shortest Shadow. She articulates the two in unity: To her, plays are those retaining the paradigms of montage—paradigms in which the subject’s existence is transcendental while accessible, that is, inexplicable while experience-able. Thus, comedies do not expose the subject’s existence or absence and mock it, but rather discern it(existence and absence) all while composing it in unison, prompting the perception of utterly discrete facets to be placed on the same dimension. “Love” dismantled by Zupančič is also the discovery of us, accompanied by a sublime while absurd being. Loving yields a fundamental inaccessibility of the other when it is blind with the subject, unable to perceive its absurd and profane disposition. And this situates our relationship with the other on a perpetual preliminary phase— i.e., the “yet to come.” However, a genuine loving lies in the preservation of transcendence within the accessibility of the other that roots from the disclosure of absurdity.