What You are Touching Now – Insubong Peak

Six strips of cotton canvas, each 1.6 meters wide and 11.25 meters long, were hung down the Great Slab of Insubong Peak in Bukhansan Mountain. The artist, together with five veteran climbers, created frottage using crayons on the rock surface while rappelling down. The film documents a journey of collaboration and solidarity that began at dawn and concluded in the afternoon, portraying moments of adversity such as seeking shelter from sudden rain. 

A great cocoon of Insubong Peak in the gallery. This work is both a rubbing that documents the climate crisis and a vivid skin of the Other, understood through touch. Having long engaged with the mountains, the artist sought to embody the sensation and tactile experience born from the encounter between the fragile human body and immense stone. 

[Hong Lee Hyun-sook, Director]