Allexandra Willis Solo Exhibition

ใ€Ša fact of poemใ€‹

2025. 4. 16 - 4. 28.




« Cette adaptation constante à un but physique, mécanique, chimique est poursuivie dans une série d'actes montés, et montés chez l'individu non pas simplement par lui-même, mais par toute son éducation, par toute la société dont il fait partie, à la place qu'il y occupe. » 
— Marcel Mauss, Les techniques du corps, 1934 


 Over a two-week performance, the exhibition unfolds through the construction of a new environment. 

The artist gradually builds, twists and knots, orchestrating a sculptural framework through a series of repetitive gestures. Each gesture carries with it both the spontaneity of an impulse and the weight of accumulated intent. With a succession of modest movements, the form gradually materialises. Boundaries are determined, passages created and unseen barriers imposed. Countless small gestures come together to form an intricate architecture. It speaks about the delicate act of self-confinement as well as the weight that every gesture carries; every unassuming motion conditioned by the cultural and societal systems in which we live. The artist’s research into passive trapping, a form of hunting where capture occurs without active pursuit, deepens this investigation. She questions the invisible mechanisms of constraint and control that shape our environments. These latent structures, ranging from architectures of power to implicit social dynamics, are omnipresent yet often imperceptible. They guide us forward, limit our retreat, and gradually position us within a system whose boundaries we rarely question. This performance exposes how we unconsciously adapt to these frameworks, internalising their logics and rhythms. Through the play of materials and spatial configurations, the installation reveals the ambivalence of these systems. Structures that evoke both protection and domination, invitation and confinement. Inspired by found materials and forms encountered in the artist’s immediate surroundings, the evolving structure is both reactive and intentional. It is shaped by the environment and shapes it in return. A continuous CCTV feedback loop, projected on the second floor, captures the transformation from an empty room to the final work. The artist’s every gesture is witnessed and recorded by this silent, third-party presence - a disembodied authoritative eye that occupies the space with her. This persistent observation becomes an integral component of the work, emphasising the idea of surveillance, control and the psychological weight of being watched.   The performance becomes a dialogue between agency and submission and the illusion of choice. A construction not only of space, but of the conditions that govern our movement within it. English translation of quote: “This constant adaptation to a physical, mechanical or chemical aim is pursued through a series of assembled actions, assembled not by the individual himself alone but by his education, by the whole of society and by the place he occupies in it.” - Marcel Mauss, Techniques of the Body,   trans. Ben Brewster, Routledge, 1979 Korean translation of quote and statement: 







“๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ , ๊ธฐ๊ณ„์ , ํ™”ํ•™์  ๋ชฉ์ ์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ์ ์‘์€, ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ํ–‰์œ„๋“ค์˜ ์—ฐ์† ์†์—์„œ ์ถ”๊ตฌ๋˜๋ฉฐ, 
์ด๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ์— ์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ›์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ต์œก๊ณผ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์†ํ•œ ์‚ฌํšŒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ„์น˜์—์„œ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„๋‹ค.
-๋งˆ๋ฅด์…€ ๋ชจ์Šค, ใ€Ž์‹ ์ฒด์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ใ€, 1934 
                                                                          

2์ฃผ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ณต์—ฐ ๋™์•ˆ, ์ „์‹œ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์˜ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํŽผ์ณ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์ธ ์ œ์Šค์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์ด์–ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์กฐ๊ฐ์  ํ‹€์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์Œ“๊ณ , ๋น„ํ‹€๋ฉฐ, ๋งค๋“ญ์ง“์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ๊ฐ์˜ ์ œ์Šค์ฒ˜๋Š” ์ถฉ๋™์˜ ์ฆ‰ํฅ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ถ•์ ๋œ ์˜๋„์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๋ฅผ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ์†Œํ•œ ์›€์ง์ž„๋“ค์ด ์—ฐ์†๋˜๋ฉฐ ํ˜•ํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์ ์ฐจ ๊ตฌ์ฒดํ™”๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์„ค์ •๋˜๊ณ , ํ†ต๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๋ฉฐ, ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฒฝ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ€๊ณผ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ž‘์€ ์ œ์Šค์ฒ˜๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์†์˜ ์„ฌ์„ธํ•œ ํ–‰์œ„์™€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ œ์Šค์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ, ์ฆ‰ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™”์ ·์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ฑดํ™”๋œ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์›€์ง์ž„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์†Œ๊ทน์  ํฌํš, ์ฆ‰ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์ถ”๊ฒฉ ์—†์ด๋„ ํฌํš์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ƒฅ์˜ ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ œ์•ฝ๊ณผ ํ†ต์ œ์˜ ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์„ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์•”๋ฌต์ ์ธ ์‚ฌํšŒ ์—ญํ•™์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด ์ž ์žฌ๋œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋“ค์€ ๋„์ฒ˜์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ข…์ข… ๊ฐ์ง€๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ๋ฉฐ, ํ›„ํ‡ด๋ฅผ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋‚ด์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ„์น˜์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณต์—ฐ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์— ์ ์‘ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •, ์ฆ‰ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ์„ ๋‚ด๋ฉดํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์˜ ๋†€์ด์™€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ณ€์ฃผ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด, ์ด ์„ค์น˜๋ฏธ์ˆ ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ๋ชจํ˜ธํ•จ์„ ๋ฐํž™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํ˜ธ์™€ ์ง€๋ฐฐ, ์ดˆ๋Œ€์™€ ๊ตฌ์†์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋“ค ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์ ์ธ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋œ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ˜•ํƒœ์—์„œ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„, ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜์‘์ ์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์˜๋„์ ์ž„์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ์˜ํ•ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜๊ณ , ๋™์‹œ์— ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2์ธต์— ํˆฌ์‚ฌ๋œ ์—ฐ์†์ ์ธ CCTV ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ ๋ฃจํ”„๋Š” ํ…… ๋นˆ ๋ฐฉ์ด ์ตœ์ข… ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ œ์Šค์ฒ˜๋Š” ์ด ๋ฌด์–ธ์˜ ์ œ3์ž, ์ฆ‰ ๊ทธ๋…€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฒดํ˜„๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ถŒ์œ„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉ๋˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ก๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ฐฐ์€ ๊ฐ์‹œ, ํ†ต์ œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ์‹œ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ์˜ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์š”์†Œ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด ๊ณต์—ฐ์€ ํ–‰์œ„์™€ ๋ณต์ข…, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ ํƒ์˜ ์ฐฉ๊ฐ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์›€์ง์ž„์„ ์ขŒ์šฐํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด๋“ค์˜ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.