YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

CRUCIFIED TVS – NOT A PRAYER IN HEAVEN 2018

Mimicking the way that crucifixes are often suspended from church ceilings, CRUCIFIED TVS — NOT A PRAYER IN HEAVEN 2018 is installed high in an atrium space at an angle that faces down towards the viewers below. The repetition of text across five screens recalls a television news ticker repeating the same information over and over, or the cyclical feeds of online news reporting.

The pronouns ‘I’, ‘YOU’ and ‘WE’ are on constant rotation onscreen, in response to the questions: Who causes fear? Who watches on? The work recounts the brutalities of doors being busted down and people being pushed into the street in their underwear, as neighbours watch on and ‘CRY OUT, KILL THE TRAITOR’, as the video declares. The violence of the text contrasts with the soundtrack, as if a disaster is being replayed on a television screen in an inner-city apartment, but the volume is muted as cocktail music plays.