OF bodies chang’d to various forms, I sing…

“‘In this closed garden of the first observations there always
remains the possibility of dreamlike mutation, transformation,
protean survival in an ever-changing shape.”

OF bodies chang’d to various forms, I sing… is the solo
exhibition of the Berlin-based artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan
which aims to shed light on the artists’ creative processes.

Entering the realm of Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s work is like
walking into a ‚Wunderkammer’.
Her work is like an interactive fantasy play with the
knowledge and theories about the world and our souls.
Wherever there is no accurate knowledge, fantasy runs riot.

Jordan opens up doors to a holistic universe where she,
humorously and romantically creates machines that mirror,
extend or convert biological processes and chemical reactions
between living organisms and dead material, which are then
interwoven with classical myth and poetry.

In her work she explores the flow of energies, human
constructs of time and memory, decay, death, her own
identity and encounters between mankind and nature. All of
her works are highly interrelated to one another. The impetus
behind her installations is/ are often (a) specific biological
process(es) that symbolize a social space, in which she allows
certain circulations and prohibits others.

Jordan also treats the microscope of her memory like a mirror
in which the adventurous gaze projects her own fantasies.
Her work adeptly renders the disappearance and
reappearance of the physical, even the sexual. This
paradoxical force elevates her art into symbols of the
transcendent: that which can only appear as an absence in
consciousness, summoned into aesthetic form.

For her upcoming second solo exhibition at cubus-m, the
artist presents two new installations, ‘Springbrunnen’ and
Yoko and Ono, focusing on movement, in addition to a
selection of her works until now. Aside from her installations,
drawings, sketches and photography, the beginning of her
ongoing semi-autobiographical filmic work ‘The Last Princess
of Mongolia’ will screen. This work deals with her personal
background and history, which runs as a red line through her
artistic research.
Pauline Doutreluingne

Pauline Doutreluingne, independent curator, who has
followed the work of the artist closely since 2011, curated the
exhibition and together with gallery cubus-m, they produced
a limited edition publication on her work for this occasion. Her
latest project was “If You Are So Smart, Why Aint You Rich?”,
official parallel project at the Marrakech Biennale 2014

Anne Duk Hee Jordan was born in Korea and lives and works
in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Weissensee, and continued with a Master of Fine Arts in
Berlin at the Institute für Raumexperimente under Olafur
Eliasson.
She has had solo exhibitions in Museum für Angewandte
Kunst, Frankfurt (2012), Munich, and Berlin, including
“Metrotopie” at the House of World Cultures, (HKW) –as well
as being part of group shows “the Ultimate Capital is the
Sun”, nGbK, Berlin (2014), at the Marrakech Biennale 2014,
„anything, Anything“, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New
York (2013), “The World is Not Fair – die große
Weltausstellung“, Hebel am Ufer, Berlin (2012), Museum of
Contemporary Modern Art Tokyo (2011), Goethe Institute
Sao Paolo (2011), and the Reykjavik Art Museum (2011).
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OF bodies chang’d to various forms, I sing… is the title of the
first chapter of “Metamorphoses”, by the Roman poet Ovid
(43 BC – AD 17/18), which describes the creation of the
world.