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Eternal Happiness (2022), The Pipe Factory, Glasgow
“What’s more beautiful,
a virgin or a martyr?
Floating towers, capsized ships,
crone line creatures, rotting apples.
Archetypes converge as a fantasy decays.
A fandom’s ecstatic energy, transforming
human to idol, a symbol that can reconfigure
and transcend the limitations of the living.
How does the body bend in imprisonment
and contort in battle? How does the body
stoop to receive or to transmit surrender?
We see silhouettes liberated from a pillory,
from human voice and communication.
Familiar archetypes turn ghostly.
Turning away from these familiar roles
allows them new powers.
Inhabiting a spirit world or an animal
offers more possibilities than the roles
they’ve been cast in.”
a virgin or a martyr?
Floating towers, capsized ships,
crone line creatures, rotting apples.
Archetypes converge as a fantasy decays.
A fandom’s ecstatic energy, transforming
human to idol, a symbol that can reconfigure
and transcend the limitations of the living.
How does the body bend in imprisonment
and contort in battle? How does the body
stoop to receive or to transmit surrender?
We see silhouettes liberated from a pillory,
from human voice and communication.
Familiar archetypes turn ghostly.
Turning away from these familiar roles
allows them new powers.
Inhabiting a spirit world or an animal
offers more possibilities than the roles
they’ve been cast in.”
-exhibition text by Dakotah Weeks Murphree
Eternal Happiness was a collaborative exhibition with Seoul based artists Ali Lotz and Saekyul Yoo. The exhibition took place in Glasgow’s Pipe Factory, centered around an animated film and sound piece set in a decaying medieval landscape. The film was accompanied by an installation of wall and floor works throughout the space- primarily a series of drawings by Ali Lotz mounted on wheat pasted OSB boards cut into irregular contours.
Installation photos taken by Seongsu Kim