A R T I S T P R O J E C T
FOLD, HEXAGONAL
JOO YEON PARK
Fold, Hexagonal considers the impossibility of entering into a language
of others and how such exclusion can open up a space of imagination
around words. This might include visual and bodily experiences of a
language such as writing as mark-making and the physical spaces
such writing occupies, rather than as codes of syntax and meaning.
“Hexagonal” in the title alludes to the infi nite hexagonal rooms in
“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges; as an adjective, it evokes
an indeterminate linguistic space. The disjunctive hexagon, staged on
folded, lined paper, refl ected and further fragmented on multiple mir-
rors, altering directions and dimensions, suggests the ruin of such a
library. In the folded paper—which, like a translated text, is always
forced from the outside—the refl ections of lines on mirrors shift
dimensions and relations around the lines. Sentences describing the
folding, refl ecting, and refracting of line, diagonal, square, rectangle,
and hexagon are written with English letters “folded” into squares
designed for Korean syllabic blocks. They are grammatically correct but
scarcely legible as the apprehension of their meaning is slowed by the
process of their inscription. What Benjamin calls “pure language” is
here imagined through the process of translation that is always becom-
ing, a translation that follows an unending continuation of a fold.
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