A poster for "Imprinting Time," the first garden project by Centre Pompidou Hanwha. [Hanwha]
A poster for "Imprinting Time," the first garden project by Centre Pompidou Hanwha. [Hanwha]

Centre Pompidou Hanwha announced Wednesday that it will present its first garden project, "Imprinting Time," in the museum's outdoor space, the 63 Oudolf Garden, in September.

The project marks the institution's first attempt to bring contemporary art outside the gallery walls, using the garden itself as a stage.

Three Korean women artists representing different generations — Kim Yun-shin, Shin Mee-kyung and Oh Myo-cho — will take part.

The installed works will engage with the surrounding environment — plants, seasons, wind and sunlight along the Han River, and rainwater — accumulating new traces as time passes.

Visitors can walk the garden's paths and witness the ongoing dialogue between the artworks and their natural surroundings.

Kim presents painted sculptures cast in metal from wood-carved forms, revealing the physical properties of natural materials and the movements of the body.

Shin explores the meaning of time and dissolution through angel sculptures made of soap, which gradually wear away and transform as they are exposed to wind, rain and air.

Oh examines the relationship between nature, science and humanity through amorphous sculptures that evoke hybrids of plants and the human body.

The 63 Oudolf Garden, where the project will unfold, was designed by Piet Oudolf, a world-renowned landscape architect.

His naturalistic design philosophy — which treats the growth, decline and transformation of plants as a landscape in itself — resonates with the project's central theme of traces left by time.

The garden project will make its debut at "63 Night," a private event to be held at the 63 Oudolf Garden and Centre Pompidou Hanwha on the evening of Sept. 4, with about 300 figures from the domestic and international art world in attendance.

The project opens to the general public on Sept. 6.


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