Hyundai Motor Company Hosts 'Hyundai Terrace Commission, Marina Zhokova' Exhibition

Opening at the Whitney Museum in New York on the 9th
Shedding Light on the Ecology and History of the Hudson River in New York

Hyundai Motor Company announced on the 10th that from the 9th (local time) until early next year, the exhibition "Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zurkow The River is a Circle" will be held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, USA.

'Hyundai Terrace Commission: Marina Zeroukh' Exhibition View. Source: Photo by Timothy Schenck

This exhibition is part of a program conducted under a 10-year long-term partnership established last year between Hyundai Motor and the Whitney Museum. They annually present new large-scale installation works encompassing various genres such as sculpture, performance, and multimedia at the Whitney Museum’s largest outdoor exhibition space, the 5th-floor outdoor terrace.

Marina Zurkow, born in 1962 in the United States and based in New York, is an artist who primarily creates works using diverse media including video, installation, and performance, raising questions about ecology, the environment, and the relationship between humans and nature.

In this exhibition, through animations and installation works displayed on a large media wall on the outdoor terrace, the history and environment surrounding Manhattan, centered on the Hudson River in New York, are reconstructed to explore the diversity and complexity of the surrounding ecosystem.

Marina Zurkow designed the work to reflect real-time data such as New York’s climate and seasonal changes. The animation, which blends the history of the Meatpacking District where the Whitney Museum is located and the ecological elements of the Hudson River, offers viewers an experience as if observing both above and below the water surface simultaneously through a horizontally split screen composition.

Exhibition view of 'Hyundai Terrace Commission Marina Jakow'. Source: Photo by Filip Wolak

In particular, through collaboration with the Hudson River Park management agency, the exhibition highlights the history of New York’s Manhattan Meatpacking District?from the distant past when the Lenape trading post was located there, through the active meat processing industry of the 1970s, to gentrification driven by regional development?actively utilizing the characteristic of the "Hyundai Terrace Commission" that connects the inside and outside of the museum in the outdoor exhibition space.

A Hyundai Motor official said, "At a time when integrated approaches and collective actions are becoming important for a sustainable future, we hope that Marina Zurkow’s exhibition, which deeply explores ecological and environmental changes, will provide audiences with a new artistic perspective on the interrelations of economy, society, and the environment."

Meanwhile, besides the "Hyundai Terrace Commission," Hyundai Motor officially sponsors the Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Museum’s flagship program held biennially, and continues strong partnerships with domestic and international museums such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tate Museum in the UK, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the USA.

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