Seongsan Art Hall

Songhee Noh, Catwalk, 2024, two-channel video, three-channel, LED panels, color, sound, 5min, dimensions variable, Sound: Jang young gyu, Commissioned by the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024

Looking at open data sources as contemporary archives, Songhee Noh uses the moving image to structure history and reposition the present. The artist focuses on the bleached sexuality of the state-led planned city of Changwon, inherently shaped by growth-oriented, developmentalist, and hygiene discourses. Catwalk, which also refers to the inspection lanes inside a factory, unfolds at a fast pace through the perspectives of spayed and neutered cats — who emerge as symbols of the bleached individual — while also centering the data of the crosswalks and sidewalk blocks that blanket the city’s surfaces.