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Davin

video , Soft sculptures , natuur , installatie , Artistiek onderzoek

Davin is a Korean artist who explores death, mourning, and the traces left behind after death. His work is rooted in his experience of encountering various forms of death while serving as a paramedic at a fire station during his mandatory military service in Korea. Through installations, sound, drawings, and video, he explores what emerges after death. His current research projects, Thanatopia, investigates places where lonely deaths have occurred. It examines how these houses can be transformed into spaces shaped by the presence of the deceased through decay, personal belongings, and other material traces left behind until their discovery. Through mourning practice: ceremonial installation, sound, drawing, and moving image, he exposes his acts of mourning to the public, allowing audiences to witness individual lonely deaths that often remain imperceptible in everyday life.

The Lullaby, Beginning to Rumble
The Lullaby, Beginning to Rumble - This practice, through disappearance as a method, attempts to connect grief towards the deceased who went missing without anyone noticing. At the center of this ceremonial installation, The Lullaby, Beginning to Rumble, I wave thunder as a wish that the deceased might be able to hear it. And thunder can be understood as the belatedness of grief: like thunder after lightning, never synchronized with it, grief after a lonely death arrives only in discovery—already too late. This work emerged from the symbol of Bok that Thunder begins to rumble beneath the earth. There is Gobok, a disappeared traditional mourning practice in South Korea. It is a custom to call out to one's soul immediately after death, in the hope that it will return to the body. One of the bereaved family members climbs onto the roof with a garment the departed used to wear. Facing the sky, one waves it while shouting out the deceased's name and address, then "Bok! Bok! Bok!" three times in a loud voice. Gobok directs toward the deceased but simultaneously exposes itself to society, socializing personal death as neighbours hear the shout in daily life. This thunder for thanatopia can resonate with a similar force, allowing people to perceive lonely death across the past, present, and future. In doing so, whenever actual thunder rumbles in our daily lives, we may perceive it in a subtly different way.

Halfway Point

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Locatie: C3 Studio

The Lullaby, Beginning to Rumble

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Locatie: kunst Instituut Melly

This practice uses disappearance to connect my grief with those who died alone, unnoticed. In The Lullaby, Beginning to Rumble, I wave thunder as a wish that the deceased might hear it. Thunder embodies belated grief: like thunder after lightning, it arrives only through discovery—already too late. The work draws on Gobok, a disappeared Korean mourning practice, and Bok, when thunder begins to rumble beneath the earth. A bereaved family member waves their garment and calls “Bok!” three times.

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