[DMA Collection] Yang Jung-wook: People Who Stand and Work
Creatrip Team
3 months ago
Yang Jung-wook, a Daejeon Museum of Art–listed artist, explores the relationship between labor and the human body by observing everyday gestures of overlooked workers (e.g., night guards, parking attendants). His series “People Who Stand and Work” transforms those repeated, small movements into simple wooden, thread, motor, and LED structures that create analog rhythms and subtle vibrations. Works like #10 (2015) and #22 recreate the layered time of a building originally built in 1958 for agricultural inspection, suggesting that routine gestures—opening doors, checking machines, resting—become invisible records embedded in architecture. The pieces highlight how minimal, unstable structures can make intangible time and repetitive labor perceptible, inviting visitors to rethink space as a repository of lived movement and memory.
