Witness III | Sook Jin Jo

Witness III | Sook Jin Jo

Franconia presents a new site-specific sound installation by Korean born, New York based artist Sook Jin Jo 조 숙 진

Franconia Sculpture Park is pleased to present Sook Jin Jo: Witness III, a sound installation in the Mardag Gallery. It is based on Sook Jin Jo’s “Witness” originally installed in 2017 at the Forum Schlossplatz in Aarau, Switzerland. The site-specific piece “Witness II” was presented in and around the indoor museum and the outdoor park of the Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea in 2021.

“A tree that has lived for several hundred years is a symbol of life and a witness who silently observes the world – – a witness of time, space, and human history. The sound installation “Witness lII” is a mixture of sounds that occur in the world of nature and throughout human existence: the sounds of birds, wind, waves, children playing, everyday life, trains, horns, church bells, whistles, typewriters, soldiers marching, music box, gunfire, the sound of bombs… 

When visitors genuinely connect with the work, “Witness III,” they become witness as well.”

The public is invited to Franconia Sculpture Park on April 29, 2023 from 4pm-6pm for a celebratory opening reception of Sook Jin Jo: Witness III on International Sculpture Day. 


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