The Dream of the Audience
dal 5/12/2002 al 2/3/2003
Segnalato da
5/12/2002
The Dream of the Audience
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
She lived only 33 years, but Korean artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha left a substantial and diverse body of artwork. Although Cha is best known for the book Dictee, which combines family history, autobiography, poetry and images, she also worked in a wide variety of mediums, ranging from performance, film and video to mail art, artist books, small sculpture and ceramics.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)
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She lived only 33 years, but Korean artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha left a substantial and diverse body of artwork. Although Cha is best known for the book Dictée, which combines family history, autobiography, poetry and images, she also worked in a wide variety of mediums, ranging from performance, film and video to mail art, artist books, small sculpture and ceramics. In many cases, her conceptually rich work combines aspects of different media, blurring conventionally distinct categories. This work also explores themes born of personal experience -language, memory, displacement and alienation- and is distinguished by a wealth of cultural references and multiple languages, including Korean, French and English.
"The main body of my work is with language," Cha wrote, "before it is born on the tip of the tongue." Like many of her contemporaries in New York and Europe, Cha based her conceptual artwork on linguistic structure; however, she also drew on personal sources. For many Koreans, the issue of language is emotional, since under the long Japanese occupation (1909-1945) they were not permitted to speak their native tongue. Cha literally takes apart language in her work, creating new meanings from her deconstructions and inventing new words. The presentation of The Dream of the Audience at the Henry Art Gallery will be Seattle's first exposure to this influential yet underrepresented artist's full range of production.
The Dream of the Audience is organized by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, and curated by Senior Curator for Exhibitions Constance Lewallen. The exhibition is supported by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts; the Peter Norton Family Foundation; the Korea Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; The Judith Rothschild Foundation; an anonymous donor with a matching grant from the TRW Foundation; the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley; and the Koret Foundation. The museum would also like to thank Mr. H. Jin Lee, President, Lee Company, Inc., El Segundo, CA; Mr. Kong Chil Kim, Chairman, and Mr. Dae Joong Kim of Dae Gong Development Company, Seoul, Korea, for their support. The Dream of the Audience is organized for the Henry Art Gallery by Assistant Curator Robin Held.
Image: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Untitled, 1980. Glass jar with lid containing 5 pieces of paper with type-written text and black string. Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation and Noelle O'Connor.
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