The 1st VH AWARD: JE BAAK “A Journey”
The 1st VH AWARD: JE BAAK “A Journey”
The 1st VH AWARD: JE BAAK “A Journey”
The 1st VH AWARD: JE BAAK “A Journey”
About the Video
Je Baak received the Grand Prix for A Journey, an otherworldly meditation that feels both surreal and familiar. Baak’s video work takes place in a celestial landscape where forms such as the moon or a white flag are stretched beyond the horizon of realism. The setting is a foreign space, where the rules of earth no longer apply, but Baak’s gift is a sense of optimism—what could be scary is instead enchanting. A Journey is a sort of metaphor for life, allowing viewers to experience a world full of symbolic elements and situations from the perspective of a traveler on their life’s journey.
The 1st VH AWARD: A Journey by JE BAAK. Provided by HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP VH AWARD
About the Program
The VH AWARD supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned artworks across various global platforms. Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating promising artists to share their artistic experiments and amplify their voices on diverse issues. The award encourages artists who push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to reflect on how we understand ourselves and one another in relation to the past, present and future. To amplify and share their voices with broader communities, the artworks commissioned by the VH AWARD have been exhibited in partnership with various art institutions and platforms, including the Vision Hall of Hyundai Motor Group in Yongin, South Korea; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia; the National Arts Council in Singapore; the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland; and the Elektra Virtual Museum.