photo by Léa Giordano


veins of stone, trees of blood

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


                                                           


                                                           


                                                           


                                                           


                                                             

        
                                                             


                                                             






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