multi media installation
video | sunji paper | 20 min | 2024
In the deep core of the mountain chain, blood flows and binds grandmother to mother, mother to granddaughter and granddaughter to grandmother.
In this video installation, Karolina Hyun Wilting explores the intersection of many things: the afterworld, ancestral heritage, permanence, and transience weaving together memories, handmade ritual objects, and timeless entities. Through personal rituals, she opens a portal to another realm where the afterworld and the everyday life meet, and the timeless and the ephemeral coexist.
The paper cutouts are inspired by the Korean tradition of sacred paper cutting, a cultural practice involving the creation of ritual paper objects used in “굿” rituals to drive out evil spirits or commemorate the deceased.
Interwoven with the story of her grandfather’s mountains, the mountain becomes a totem, a gateway to ancestral space: the everlasting mountain as an anchor-point to our fleeting human existence.
Cinematography: Gilles van Leeuwen and Karolina Hyun Wilting
Light: Ben Geraerts
Hand actors: Romaine Gijsberti Hodenpijl and Margriet Kruiver
Sound design: tristan dunn | so wet’s water kingdom
Sound mixing: Rick Haring
Documentaion: Léa Giordano, Simon Pillaud, Karolina Hyun Wilting
special thanks to:
my teachers of the VAV department
the workshop people of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie
my classmates of the VAV Department
Tungsten Studio
Katharina Sook Wilting
Kana Endo
Izzy Jiyeon Lee
Fatima Agoula
Yael Schuster
Omri Bigetz
Dong Sook Park
Michaël Mersie
email: karolinawilting@gmail.com IG: karolina_hyun