Ji  Hye Yeom

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The Last Night
마지막 밤
2024 
Moving Image
25min
Commissioned by Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, and Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea

The Last Night, Still Night
마지막 밤, 여전히 밤
2025
1min 23sec
Commissioned by Mars Green
COEX Media Screen, Korea
“What if this is the last night of the world?” 
by John Donne

The Last Night is a gritty portrait of the last night under the pressure of staying awake in a time of lingering disaster. If today is indeed the last night, how do we seize the passing time?  





https://vimeo.com/1139170468
Videography by Homan Kwon



『The Last Night』 Book
『마지막 밤』 책
2024『Ji Hye Yeom, The Last Night』 is intended to be an experience of independent readings by various authors, and also amplified by their interlocking effects with the moving image work, The Last Night. As the title suggests, The Last Night is an apocalypse of today that reveals the form of a final night that has yet to arrive. Through its images, which look for signs of catastrophe among the obvious, the six contributors to this book reflect on the final hour that has not arrived.
한국어판 목차
5. <이 세상의 서스펜스>, 김홍기
21. <리-선셋 Re-Sunset>, 천선란
33. <애도의 시간>, 최유미
51. <종말론적 수행성>, 김홍중
63. <에필로그: 마지막 밤>, 구나연
1–76. <(확대한) 마지막 밤>, 민구홍

Study for the Last Night
마지막 밤 습작
2023
Oil on canvas
162.2 x 130.3 cmApocalypse conjures up images of catastrophe, like the end of the world, but its etymology includes revealing the hidden, and exposing secrets. This painting is a representation of the heart as it is, as if the grease on the heart has been apocalysed off with a skimmer, lifting the veil of a ravaged mind. My focus was on exploring contemporary emotional states such as depression and anxiety, potential future scenarios, and historical and symbolic concepts of apocalypse.
Study for Fire (Series)
불 습작 (연작)
2023~2024
Oil on canvas
Various size
Future Fever
미래열병
2018
Moving image
17min 10sec
Commissioned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea

Italian Futurists rejected all existing ideas and tried to become more aggressive and avant-garde when entering the future. This attitude resonated with the purpose of Fascism at the time, which was about ‘new people, making a new society’. Futurism eventually came closer to Fascism. Just as history repeats itself, society today seems to be afflicted with the contemporary epidemic called ‘future fever’, a fervent belief that progress can only be achieved by staying ahead of others in the high-tech race. In the turbulence of rising tension, it throws the question: Where exactly are we headed now?

CyborgHandstanderus's Nose 
사이보그핸드스탠더러스의 코
2021
Moving image
19min 10sec
Commissioned by Arko Art Center, Korea

CyborgHandstanderus is a nexus of the cyborg, trapped in the conventional image of post-humans, and Handstanderus, who attempts a new way of contemplation through plants. This work talks about an amalgamation—interweaving and fusion—of machines, animals, and plants, things, which seem unlikely to blend in. It is not just an apocalyptic alarming message against a new species. Instead, it looks at CyborgHandstanderus and their attributes—especially the sense of smell, which has been overlooked in the history of the senses. By doing so, this work imagines the form and matter of a species that will exist in the time that will soon arrive, acknowledges the most basic behavior to sustain life—breathing—and inhales the power of the smell.



Black Sun X : Casper, Witch, and Handstanderus
검은 태양 X : 캐스퍼, 마녀, 
그리고 물구나무종
2021 
Moving image
19min
Commissioned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea


The Manifesto of Handstanderus
물구나무종 선언
2021
Moving image
6min 50sec
Black Sun X : Casper, Witch, and Handstanderus traces the trajectory of catastrophes from their nascence to the present. It weaves together fragments of loosely connected narratives under 'Black Sun X' that implies constantly swelling catastrophes.








It Is the manifesto of  'Handstanderus' who is a group of people trying to find new ways of thinking through plants.
Le Soleil Noir
검은 태양
2019
Moving image
13min 31sec
Supported by Art Council Korea, and Korea Polar Research Institute (Kopri), KoreaLe Soleil Noir(Black Sun) is about the balance and cracks of a relationship. Control on nature and its instability, the control on human relationships and its failures are on the surface, but on the other side, it implies the power of science, its sanctuarification, and doubt on inertial faith. Using videos taken from visit to Antarctic King Sejong Station as the main footage, it reveals that the Antarctic, where only scientific activities are allowed, is actually a political space where many different interests are involved.

Current Layers  
커런트 레이어즈
2017
Moving image
25min 30sec
The word ‘layer’ contains the meaning of the crust of the Earth, a part of a system, and a layer that covers several surfaces. ‘Current Layer’ can be simply translated as a present surface; however, it could also be called a widely prevalent phenomenon at a specific time and place. This work consists of three chapters: The Chronological Study on Earth, The Form of a Plastiglomeratic Life, and The Manner of a Photoshopping Life.

They Come. Swiftly, Stealthily
그들이 온다. 은밀하게 빠르게
2016
Moving Image
15min 15sec
Supported by SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation Questioning the inadequate crisis response of the nationwide outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the spring of 2015, They Come, Swiftly, Stealthily examines how virus is merely perceived as a harmful, invisible and intangible 'thing', in spite of the fact that the virus is the entity of indispensable to our life and the process of evolution. It is the invisible yet very real entities whose confusion caused at times are instigated and exaggerated by rumors and the media.

©Ji Hye Yeom