The Elevator Ghost Story
2024
24'13", HD video, Color, Sound,
Mirror, projection, installation
Dimensions variable
Voiceover Naho Matsuda
Translation Youngil Hong
Photo documentation Bokyoung Jeong
Thanks to Jianling Zhang
Part of the Jahresausstellung 2024 Klasse Rosefeldt
2024
24'13", HD video, Color, Sound,
Mirror, projection, installation
Dimensions variable
Voiceover Naho Matsuda
Translation Youngil Hong
Photo documentation Bokyoung Jeong
Thanks to Jianling Zhang
Part of the Jahresausstellung 2024 Klasse Rosefeldt
The Elevator Ghost Story explores the theme of otherness through women in horror films who often face erasure. These women, upon escaping the patriarchal system, become invisible, trapped in a cycle of disappearance and re-emergence.
The piece envisions a moment when these women reclaim their existence, dissolving the boundaries between past and future, time and space, "you" and "I." Sensation becomes paramount, creating a fluid experience where distinctions blur.
Projected onto a mirror facing another, the work creates an uncanny atmosphere by infinitely repeating the image. The Elevator Ghost Story adopts elements of the horror genre, presenting a "film without film" composed solely of old family photographs and the ephemeral glow of a projector’s light. In the darkness, the audience follows the story through voice-over narration and eerie soundscapes, filling the absence of visuals with their imagination.
Honoring women who have broken barriers and those who have vanished, the work bridges the past and the future. Through the shifting presence and absence of visual elements, the experience transforms, inviting the audience to engage deeply with their senses.
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The piece envisions a moment when these women reclaim their existence, dissolving the boundaries between past and future, time and space, "you" and "I." Sensation becomes paramount, creating a fluid experience where distinctions blur.
Projected onto a mirror facing another, the work creates an uncanny atmosphere by infinitely repeating the image. The Elevator Ghost Story adopts elements of the horror genre, presenting a "film without film" composed solely of old family photographs and the ephemeral glow of a projector’s light. In the darkness, the audience follows the story through voice-over narration and eerie soundscapes, filling the absence of visuals with their imagination.
Honoring women who have broken barriers and those who have vanished, the work bridges the past and the future. Through the shifting presence and absence of visual elements, the experience transforms, inviting the audience to engage deeply with their senses.
