BANK & RAU

Stedsspecifik tekstil installation til konfuciansk pavillion i den traditionelle landsby Hahoe i Sydkorea. Udstillingen blev til under et 4 mdr. langt residency på MMCA Changdong i Seoul. 

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For the Heritage Village of Hahoe in the Yonjaru Pavillion, surrounded by beautiful Andong landscape, Bank & Rau has created the site specific installation “Let´s Leave the Dishes”.

Yonjaru was built in 1573 by Yu Seongnyong (1542-1607), a Confucian scholar and statesman of the Joseon dynasty, as a site for contemplation, and relaxation, of course reserved for the gentile male.

Bank & Rau has made a series of perforated textile collages, depicting piles of plates, cups, pans, pots and cutlery,- as if someone just enjoyed a meal, and left behind the dishes for later. The choice of motif is very important, the motif of dishwashing works as a kind of trigger that connects the artist and the viewer through this very familiar domestic

action.  In the collages the decorative representation of piles of dishes manages to transcend us into a shared narrative.

The materials chosen for the work are synthetic Korean textiles manufactured by Samsung. Some normally used in modern versions of the traditional Hanbok skirts, some used for making men's shirts.

Bank & Rau “dress up” the pavillion in these worked fabrics, and activate the space with 1:1 matchstick-figure sculptures performing different kinds of cleaning, reminding us of daily life, its many chores and hard labor, as a universal human condition.