breathe with me (2025-2026)
Five-channel video installation
Directed by Kate Bae, in collaboration with Hyo Jung Bea
Grand Central Madison Terminal, LIRR Concourse, New York, NY
September 3, 2025 – March 31, 2026
This work forms part of an ongoing inquiry into how life persists across multiple bodies within shared systems. Photo by Nicholas Knight, 2026
Photo by Nicholas Knight, 2026
Breathe with Me is a five-channel video installation presented at New York’s Grand Central Madison Terminal. Filmed underwater, the work follows performers as they walk, balance, reach, and release breath in slow, deliberate rhythms—transforming simple actions into gestures of endurance and connection.
Displayed across synchronized screens in a public transit hub, the installation contrasts the urgency of commuter movement with the stillness of submerged bodies. This temporal shift invites viewers into a moment of pause, where breath becomes both a shared biological act and a metaphor for interdependence.
Through water as both medium and condition, Breathe with Me reflects on vulnerability, collective resilience, and the fragile continuity that connects human bodies to one another and to the ecological systems they inhabit.
Performed by Sookyung Min and Haeyeon Hyun
Photo by Nicholas Knight, 2026
On view from September 3 until March 31, 2026
Cast
Hyo Jung Bea 배효정 @hyojung_bea
Go Choong Kwon 고충권 @seojeongdive
Sookyung Min 민수경 @soo0222_everglow
Haeyeon Hyun 현혜연 @my_hy_
Minkyung Jung 정민경 @common_alsrud
Crew
Cheonbeom Heo 허천범 @iruka903
Taewan Kwon 권태완 @jeju_diving_studio
Jihun Hyun 현지훈 @jh0517sk_
Sangyeob Lim 임상엽 @xango_ithaca
Presented as part of the MTA Arts & Design program @mtaartsdesign. This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant @foundationforcontemporaryarts.