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Busan Biennale 2014

Outline Theme Exhibition Information Team Artists & Artworks
The Bachelor`s Bed
Kibong RHEE


The Bachelor`s Bed


Kibong Rhee`s work encourages philosophical or scientific contemplation through sight and perception. Elements of nature appear in both his two-dimensional and his three-dimensional works. These elements are actual natural objects such as trees and lakes that are projected as a motif and even phenomena such as flowingwater outbreaks of fog and radiation of heat that unfold before us at the same time.

In contrast the fog in his three-dimensional work The Bachelor's Bedappears more directly in front of us. At first glance we see something about the size of a single bed that looks like a bench but fog is gushing from the top of it forming a cloud. At the same time a single red laser beam is visible among the cloud and then the cloud disappears momentarily leaving only the bed. The phenomenon that repeats above the bed makes it seem as if everything has been erased by the power of someone who will not allow new worlds to come into existence.
If you interpret theword bachelor in the title to mean a single man The Bachelor's Bedalso seems to be expressing the delusions in the head of a lonely man that night after night grow in size and his ambivalent psychological state that attempts to forbid that happening. However sometimes a creation is produced from desire and what excites that desire is something that seems to be lacking or missing. Does thinking in this way lead to the idea that a creation is produced from a desire to bury what is lacking or missing in the world and also in the Creator.
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