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Soyoung Chung has build an installation exploring how the experience of time is controlled by urban space. The project “Tectonic Memories“ questions how memories are structured within our society and how personal narratives are generated in the city. In the second part of this work, titled “Chapter II. Separation”, our relation to the politics of space will be questioned, ranging from the personal to the historical, in the post Cold war era. Her past project around the DMZ (Demilitarized zone between North and South Korea) dealt with our position toward the ongoing history of division, and the psychological and physical distances that we experience in a border area. Confronted by the built remnants of Berlin’s history of separation, Chung cannot but anticipate the future architectural left overs of a possible reunited Korea. Her own personal meanderings through Berlin made her notice the scarred and numerously patched together pavements and ground surfaces, in a city with a long history of enforced changes, reminding her of maps of the hostile border and Death strip between the two Koreas. The installation is inspired by the shape of the concrete slabs covering much of Berlin’s pavements, but also by geological formations of volcanic rock. For Chung, Geology can be understood as a layering of Geography over time. Drawing this connection with crushed basalt rock, as well as with the outline of the pylons stretching up into space, Chung allows us to perceive our own personal steps on the sidewalk as just a tiny movement in a vast desert of time. (text by Tobias Sternberg)
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