Teresa Hak Kyung Cha

During her short life, the American/Korean artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

(1951-1982) produced a dense body of literary and critical work. In Paris in

1976, the artist studied with Raymond Bellour and Thierry Kuntzel, with whom

she established an artistic and theoretical dialogue. Her videos, mingling

images and texts, are conceived as a montage producing a paradoxical sensation

of fluidity and sudden changes. Through its title evoking continuous shifts,

one of her most famous pieces, Passages Paysages (1976), could be a definition

of the artist's constant desire to produce flows, visual and sound exchanges as

memories to be captured, then made to both appear and disappear. Elvan Zabunyan

is a contemporary art historian, lecturer and critic. Her book, Theresa Hak

Kyung Cha – Berkeley – 1968, the first monograph on the artist in France and

America, was published by Presses du Réel in 2013.