BLACK HOLE FAMILY
Jungsub Eom + Laura Ohio
July 5, 2o24

Automata welcomes Los Angeles artists Jungsub Eom and Laura Ohio for Black Hole Family, an exhibition of recent work. The exhibition is a result of the two artists working separately then converging around the concept of a black hole. Laura uses video and performance to consider the failure of vision and the overdetermined image of a young girl. Jungsub is interested in the chain of thoughts triggered by reorienting oneself to the ungraspable concept of a black hole, which he makes tangible and embodied through his fabrication process.

As friends who are facing fractures and new beginnings in their family lives, they became drawn to the idea of the black hole. The family acts as a black hole because of its infinite density. We are shaped internally by the intense familiarity–or distance–of family, which remains a part of us regardless of our intentions. There is also the density of family as an institution, the most basic unit, norm, and governance of society. Like a black hole that sucks everything in, the family is always gestating an inevitable absence or incomprehensible loss. Black Hole Family is also about relationships with others that are mediated by pain. 

Prior to the exhibition, the two artists are in residence at Automata, responding to the space, performing, reading, and translating oral structures into different forms. 

RECEPTION:
Please join us for a reception on Friday, July 5th at 6pm with a performance by Laura Ohio featuring Barbara T. Smith.