‘Under Construction’, is a solo exhibition by Korean artist, Geumhyung Jeong, featuring a newly commissioned installation of sculpture and video, and series of live performances. Working from her background in choreography and an interest in the role that technology plays in our lives, Jeong uses her body and animatronic figures built from DIY parts to explore the uncanny relationships between people and machines – incorporating complete human skeleton models as a central component of the work. The gallery evolves over time as Jeong constructs robots and interacts with them in a series of intimate performances.

The graphic language borrows cues from product serial numbers and electronic casings. For the main title, bright blue, recycled Acrylic letters, have been plasti-dipped into a bright Orange material and mounted awkwardly across the gallery door, leading you into the shifting exhibition space. The exhibition introduction and event listing sits on three skin-like coated panels, opposite.

A shifting stack of large-scale gallery guides sit on a wheeled delivery pallet at the entrance to the gallery, utilising cropped lettering along the edge of the sheet to form a striking banding effect along the edge.

Interpretation is set in both regular and monospace styles of RP Merkury, referencing plotter and CAD (computer-aided design) typography and early coding with its simplified, monolinear sans serif letterforms.

Jeong constructs, cares for, and communicates with these homemade robot partners through an intimate dialogue of gestures and choreographed movements, seen during performances and in the control-centre styled video installation in the second gallery that documents these events and the artist’s tender creation and maintenance of the work – more co-performers than objects.