SeMA Bunker B1st Exhibition Hall
2024.05.23~2024.06.14
Free
Video, Paintings, Installation
Lee Wen, Charmaine Poh, Jieun Uhm, Leesop Cho, Cha Yeonsa, Suyon Huh
15
Seoul Museum of Art
semasinjin@seoul.go.kr
■ Exhibition
Selected for the [Emerging Artists & Curators 2024], curator Eunha Chang's exhibition, Sad Captions: Everything Has Been Washed Away; I Can Only Write ‘Sad’..., focuses on diverse voices of artists around 'sadness' amidst the contemporary desire to become numb to external events and experiences. Through a carefully curated selection of works spanning from the 1990s to the 2020s, itnavigates the turbulent waters of 'sadness' arising from various contexts such as racism, cyberbullying, climate crisis, and pandemics. As visitors uncover the fragmented words and remnants of 'I,' the very subject of 'sadness,' they foster a deep connection with 'my' unique sadness while writing their own 'captions' and forging new bonds along the way.
The exhibition Sad Captions: Everything Has Been Washed Away; I Can Only Write ‘Sad’... is a space that waits for the ‘sadness’ of the plural 'I' to be explained through you, rather than reducing, classifying, analyzing, or clarifying the cause of ‘my’ ‘sadness.’
■ Eunha Chang
Eunha Chang is a curator and researcher based in Seoul. She leads the long-term curatorial project Post-sexual Futures: Towards Queer Non-humanisms (2022-). Notable exhibitions and curatorial projects include Beings Swimming Backstroke towards the Waterfall (2023-2024, PS333), Autophagy: Eating in its Destructive and Creative Nature (2022-2023, BeautifulSoup & de Appel), Invasive Species Behind the Notoriety: Multi-directional Narratives for Abundant Futures (2021, Asia Culture Center), and Portals, Teleportation (2021, Ankara House & Buyukdere35 Art Gallery). Chang has participated in the Liverpool Biennial Curatorial Study Group (2021, Liverpool Biennial), Convening the Untitled (2023-2024, Seoul Museum of Art), Forking Room (2023, Post Territory Ujeongguk), and Multiple Crises and the Asian Anthropocene (2023, KAIST, IBS). She has worked at the Istanbul Biennial, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and Seoul Museum of Art. Chang holds a BA in Art Studies from Hongik University and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating with distinction. She is currently a Fulbright scholar starting a Ph.D. program in Art History in the fall of 2024.
SeMA Bunker is one of Seoul’s Future Heritage sites. The city of Seoul initiated the Future Heritage Project in 2012 with the purpose of preserving designated historical sites and objects as part of the city’s cultural heritage. The bunker, believed to have been built during the military regime in the 1970s, was discovered during an on-site investigation for the construction of a transit center in Yeouido in 2005 and was later transformed into an art space. The facility, which embodies the ordeals of Korea’s modern history, presents a special exhibition in its history gallery and experimental projects that reflect the location’s site-specific characteristics and aesthetic features. (Picture: ⓒ Kim YongKwan)
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