Tate Modern-MoMA exhibition artist Seonghwan Kim
Solo exhibition held at Seoul Museum of Art
Contains the theme of the process of historical construction
Artist Kim Seong-hwan’s solo exhibition ‘Ooo Ah’ Oh ‘Ia’ Oh Ia Ee Ia, who held solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern ‘The Tanks’ opening exhibition (2012) and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMa, 2021) with poetic videos and installation works. (Ua a’o ‘ia ‘o ia e ia·He learned from him. Learned. Taught by him)’ at the Seoul Museum of Art. It opened on the 19th at the Seosomun Main Building. The exhibition held on the second and third floors of the museum is centered around some works from the Hawaii Triennale in which the artist participated in 2022, the new video ‘Untitled’, and the 2007 video ‘Keizo’s Summer Days – Records of 1937’.
The theme that runs through the exhibition is ‘How is history constructed?’ At a press conference on the 18th, the author said, “I first learned about history through national history education in middle and high school, and after becoming an adult, I do not read in detail about that era. Because of this, I look at the past through the framework of perception I learned through education.”
“There are several figures in Korean political history that we have experienced over the past two weeks. There are politicians inside and outside the National Assembly, people holding fire extinguishers, citizens taking to the streets, and novelists who have won the Nobel Prize to talk about history happening now… However, after a long time, only a few characters appear in the records of national history books, and their personalities are often not clearly revealed.”
Based on this critical awareness, the first exhibition hall unravels the history of Hawaii, which he only thought of as a ‘resort destination and a beautiful place.’ Here, books published by Hawaiian publishers during the Hawaiian sovereignty movement in the 1970s and the work of a group of photographers who recorded changes in Hawaii were displayed.
Among the exhibition halls, people who played supporting roles in history, such as Dosan Ahn Chang-ho’s wife and independence activist Lee Hye-ryeon (1884-1969), his eldest son Ahn Philip (1906-1978), and Bae Hall-ra (1922-1994), who went to Hawaii in 1950 and taught Joseon’s traditional dance. ‘Body Complex’ (2024), a work created by printing photos, was installed. It is an attempt to make the audience come face to face with people who are not properly recorded in history books.
The new work in this exhibition is the video installation ‘Untitled’ presented in the second exhibition room on the third floor. This work is the third new work of ‘Pyohaerok’, which explores the history of Hawaii, but is unfinished. The artist plans to complete the work by conducting a workshop at the exhibition hall from mid-February to March. He said, “An exhibition is not a place for one-sided presentation, but a place to talk while looking into the eyes of others,” which can be read as his intention to experiment with composing the work together with the audience. In addition, lecture programs and publications by historian Byeong-moon Jeong, art historian Soo-hyeon Mok, and media historian Yong-woo Lee are provided at the exhibition hall. The exhibition runs until March 30th next year.
Reporter Kim Min [email protected]
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