Toys, Selected
Geumhyung Jeong
May 9 - July 26, 2025
Opening Reception, May 9, 2025, 6–8pm
Choreographer and performance artist Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980) employs puppets, mannequins, and machines in her performance pieces that explore bodily connection through the techniques of contemporary dance, puppet theater, and the visual arts. Through interactions with inanimate objects that appear to be human, Jeong interrogates narratives of eroticism, the nature of animacy, and the dynamics of power at play when two bodies interact. As the boundary between man and machine becomes evermore blurry, Jeong invites machines into the most intimate aspects of human experience. Canal Projects will host the artist’s first New York solo exhibition this summer, allowing an unfiltered look at the artist’s boundary-breaking work.
