Biography
Jane Hwang is a multimedia artist based in Berlin. She employs research based narratives to navigate the intricate intersections of community memories and documentation. Her work investigates subjects such as oral history, archives, geopolitical dynamics, fragmented memory, rituals, and the sensory impact of historical findings through film, text, and audiovisual installation.
Hwang holds a B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an M.A. in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited on various platforms, including a solo exhibition at Artspace Hyeong, Seoul (2024) as well as screenings and group exhibitions at the 18th River Film Festival, Padua (2024), CCA Berlin (2023), the Icelandic Visual Artists Association, Reykjavik (2020), and the Museum für Fotografie Berlin (2020).
Artist statement
I explore boundaries. I observe dichotomous worlds and investigate their intersection of memory, history, and identity. My work weaves together forgotten narratives and the poetics of relational histories through multimedia installations. By engaging in interdisciplinary research, I aspire to challenge entrenched categorizations persisting in our society and provoke discourse on societal boundaries.
My practice focuses on developing methodologies that create profound connections with past memories through text, sound, moving images, and multisensory experiences. By integrating historical findings, untold oral histories, unrecorded documentation and unresolved emotions, my work seeks to decolonize societal perceptions. It involves critically reframing historical and cultural perspectives, inviting marginalised voices, and fostering the reconstruction of collective memories in contemporary contexts.
Bridging the past and present, my work reveals overlooked stories that are fundamental to our collective identity. Through immersive experiences, I invite viewers to question the boundaries and categories that define our world—life and death, time and space, fantasy and reality, nation and territory, and the self and the other.
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