Kimsooja
dal 9/10/2013 al 25/1/2014
Segnalato da
9/10/2013
Kimsooja
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Unfolding. A retrospective to assess the 30 year career of the Korean-born artist. The exhibition highlights works that address notions of time, memory and displacement, and the relationship between the human body and the material world.
curated by Daina Augaitis, Chief Curator/Associate Director Vancouver Art Gallery
KIMSOOJA Unfolding is the first retrospective exhibition to assess the thirty- year career of the Korean-born, Paris- and New York -based artist, and offers an unprecedented opportunity to trace the development of the artist's practice from her earlier works to her more recent production.
While the scale and media of her art has varied widely, what remains constant is an engagement with questions of identity in the face of change and social flux. The exhibition highlights works that address notions of time, memory and displacement, and the relationship between the human body and the material world. This broad survey includes early textile-based pieces from the 1980s, Deductive Objects, large site-specific installations such as Bottari Truck, as well as single and multi-channel videos.
North American audiences were introduced to Kimsooja's work in the early 1990s when she began constructing bottari—objects wrapped in colourful Korean fabrics—during a residency at MoMA PS1 in New York. Kimsooja's adaptation of this Korean tradition of using fabric to bundle and transport domestic items not only garnered the international art community's attention, but also became a formal and symbolic device that she continued to use throughout her career.
The exhibition is accompanied by the KIMSOOJA Unfolding book, co-published by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Hatje Cantz (Berlin), which features over 100 images of the artist's work as well as essays by Daina Augaitis, Mary Jane Jacob, David Morgan, Selene Wendt and Suh Young-Hee.
Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Image: A Needle Woman, 1999-2001 (still) 8-channel video projection, 6:33 loop. Collection of The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
RELATED EVENTS
Artist’s Talk: Kimsooja
Tuesday, October 8, 7pm SFU Woodwards, World Art Centre, 149 West Hastings, 2nd Floor
Kimsooja speaks about her practice and recent work representing Korea in the current Venice Biennale. This event is co-presented with the SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Free to the public.
Exhibition Tour
Thursday, October 10, 6pm at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Artist Kimsooja and Curator Daina Augaitis tour the exhibition. This special tour is free to attend. RSVP to vanartgallery.bc.ca/kimsooja_opening or 604.662.4747 by Friday,
October 4.
Performance
Friday, November 29 at the Vancouver Art Gallery
A performance of Kimsooja’s work A Beggar Woman will be presented as part of FUSE.
Free for Members or with FUSE admission.
Press contact:
Debra Zhou, direct: 604-662-4722 Mobile: 604-671-2358 dzhou@vanartgallery.bc.ca
A media preview with the artist Kimsooja and Daina Augaitis will take place on Thursday, October 10th at 9am in the Gallery. Media attending are requested to RSVP to Debra Zhou.
Vancouver Art Gallery
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