Come Closer

For our exhibition at Visu Gallery in Kokkola, Finland, we worked with various states of bitumen products. In solid state we use cold-mix asphalt and made a piece that negotiated the  gravity of light versus ground. Heat, light, energy, density, materiality and immateriality were some dialectics that we were interested in. Accompanying that, we also presented a series of Bitumen Stripes that derived from the pouring of bitumen on metal plates. We allowed the viscosity of the bitumen to take its natural course on the plate. It flowed like the brown river of kokkola, forging new routes each time the plate moved.

 

     

     

 

 

 

Thank you to the following newspaper for writing about our work and showing interest in our process.

Probably the longest newspaper name—Keskipohjanmaa and Österbottens Tidning.

   

 

Press Release

“Come Closer Again” is Yunrubin’s solo exhibition at Visu Gallery. In the exhibition, the duo, consisting of Joanne Pang and Jonas Rubin presents new works that shows developments between ground matter in relation to the notions of entropy and travel.

YUNRUBIN regards ground as both physical foundational material and as existential subject. In this context, they identify the ground as the object on which site and situation are founded. They question the paradoxical nature of it as in entity and as a host for emptiness.

“Come Closer Again” explores the contingent relationships between distances and its limitations, with references to the road as a platform for a sense of (dis)placement that bridges destinations and origins.

The intervals and succession of travel is explored in  Bitumen Stripes, a series of aluminum plates covered with broken stripes of bitumen. The way physical and mental spaces between two points are connected by relation and attraction are investigated.

Researching on ground and gravity, light, as immaterial substance, is set into dialogue with tangible asphalt. Light is given weight and structure through the establishment of a three dimensional floor piece in the work Light Weight, an installation consisting of four light boxes filled with asphalt lined side by side to form an area of light and dark.

For Yunrubin, the human condition and subjectivity is regarded as essential themes to which they understand how to approach subject-object relationships. Receptions are not limited to what is visible or tangible but to the immateriality of movements, poetics and the dialectical tensions between structure, material and humans.