2017 NANJI ART SHOW 2《Pirate Edition》
Pirate Edition is the second exhibition of the 2017 NANJI ART SHOW by the artists of the 11th SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY, a program operated by the Seoul Museum of Fine Art. Organized by the artists currently in residency, this exhibition series is held regularly in 6 sessions, until the end of November, 2017.
■ SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY
The exhibition is always a special and limited edition because it’s mediated by the physical space. While there have been exhibitions have reproduce past exhibitions in whole, Pirate Edition recalls works that have never been actualized, rather than being an encore exhibition.
The exhibition
Rooftop Trilogy by Joungmin Yi(NANJI 11th), finished without even a complete catalogue. Works as references are shown in this opportunity of publishing a pirate edition of a catalogue which has never been disclosed to the public.
The work, which is about finding circular fragments on a rectangular rooftop, provides clues to memories in a circular exhibition space.
Park Sunmin(NANJI 11th) executed a work plan which was aborted in its proposal stage 11 years ago. After the demolition of Namsan Botanical Garden in 2006, the plants are gone and only the documents that record the species remain. The work, recalling the names of things that have been vanished, begins with the sketching of the botanical language.
Choi Haeri(NANJI 11th) presents a sequel, or a parallel exhibition to Art Spectrum 2016, a past exhibition which converts classics and hybridizes the past and present. She makes another variation in the sensation of experiencing the original, by partly appropriating the original exhibition which juxtaposes the original and copy.
The pirate edition sometimes becomes illegal involuntarily. This happens when legal distribution becomes limited, or in the process of acquiring things that are condemned as lacking marketable value in terms of supply and demand. Pirate Edition is an exhibition which reclaims the original form of works that were at one point on the verge of disappearance or were unwillingly mutated due to the cancellation of the project or other unforseen restrictions.
Curated by: Kim Junghyun (NANJI 11th researcher)
