The exhibition InsideOutsideandInBetween presents works by Ségolène de Witt and June Hwajung . Both explore, in different ways, the relationship between inside and outside – and the fragile space in between.
The outside, shaped by social norms and structures; the inside can – in friction with these forces – produce conflicts, longings and resistance. The spaces in between: moments in which we locate ourselves, lose ourselves, demarcate or open ourselves. Where does the self begin? Where does the foreign overlay us? And who determines what happens in between?
June Hwajung's "Garden Series" depicts spaces that are ordered, normalized, and curated by humans. Do individuality, identity, and belonging find a place? The gardens are contrasted with spheres in which emotional intimacy, queerness, and tenderness find expression – interactions that seem to have no place in the curated garden world.
Ségolène de Witt's "Bumb-tin-della" focuses on disposable relationships in the world of online dating. Inspired by Sartre's "No Exit" – "Hell is other people" – "Huis Clos" examines how people become each other's hell. The works explore dependence, the judgment of others, and the question of a possible escape.
“[...] and there are a lot of people in the world who are in hell because they depend too much on the judgment of others” (Jean Paul Sartre)
Thus, a field of tension unfolds in InsideOutsideandInBetween: between norm and intimacy, attribution and self-determination, loneliness and encounter.