2023 MMCA Residency Changdong Exhibition “The Shining Things”.. and More
MMCA Residency Changdong
2023 MMCA Residency Changdong Exhibition “The Shining Things”
Residency Changdong, operated by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, is pleased to present The Shining Things, an exhibition of the first half of the 2023 Changdong Residency, on view through June 11. This exhibition introduces seven artists from five countries who have been in residence for the first half of 2023 as part of the 21st Changdong Residency and showcases their work produced during the residency.
Oksun Kim(b. 1967), Jongheon Bae(b. 1969), Yuri Lee(b. 1973), Paul Geelen(b. 1983), Christian Danielewitz(b. 1978), Omar Mismar(b. 1986), and Nicolás Gullotta(b. 1983) will participate in the exhibition, which will feature more than 30 works in various genres including installation, photography, and painting. What sparkled in front of the artists’ eyes during the moments they spent in the unfamiliar space of Changdong, forming a community for some time, influencing each other, and exchanging information?
This exhibition chases after flashes that are too dazzling to stare at for long, flashes that pass in an instant, and after mages that remain even when the eyes are closed. You can see the fragments of the artist’s gaze in the exhibition, which is the artist’s view of the moment that passed unnoticed by others.
Changdong Residency was established to support Korean artists over the age of 40 who are active in the domestic cultural scene, enhance their capabilities through exhibitions, open studios, artist collaborations, and art talks, and internationalize Korean contemporary art by activating their creative environment. To expand its international exchange network, Changdong Residency also operates Mondrian Fund Fellowship Program, Danish Arts Foundation Fellowship Program, and International General Residency Program (artist/researcher).
Alternative Space LOOP
An Exhibition that tells the Story of Water and Women from a Hydro-Feminist perspective: "Why I Swim"
Alternative Space LOOP is presenting Why I Swim, a solo exhibition by artist Yo-E Ryou (b.1987), through June 11. This exhibition features video and installation works, discourses on feminine writing and hydro feminism, and an archival installation of simple diagrams, clippings, photographs, writings and drawings on the wall.
Hydrofeminism means “human beings are not treated as individual beings but as beings in relationship with other living beings along with water,” the artist talks about water and women’s perspectives from a hydro-feminist perspective. After experiencing the pandemic and burnout in New York City in 2021, the artist moved to Hadori, Gujwa-eup, Jeju-si and in spring 2022, she started an ‘Unlearning Space’ at the birthplace of Haenyeo Ko Yi-hwa* to conduct art education and care programs on the theme of water, women, and Jeju.
The exhibition connects the life and experience of learning to swim for the first time in 30 years, running an unlearning space, and learning from a neighboring haenyeo grandmother through artistic work. The works question the roots and fundamental healing of the physical and mental exhaustion and lethargy felt by women and artists who have experienced burnout.
Drop by drop, the sound of rain grows louder and louder until it becomes the sound of waves, which are superimposed with the sound of raging rain, storms, and huge waves and transformed into the mechanical sound of burnout. Later, the sound of water splashing into the sea is accompanied by a story about the local haenyeo, Ko Ihwa, told by the local haenyeo. “Why I Swim” which is based on the artist’s experience while learning to swim, takes the form of a letter to a distant friend in which the artist describes the process of overcoming burnout.
The earth and humans are composed of 70% water, and humans have lived in amniotic fluid since they were fetuses. The artist connects and explores hybrid feminism with the personal narrative of a woman who was born in amniotic fluid and dives back into the sea and lives with the sea. The haenyeo grandmothers teach the artist about indigenous ways of connecting with their bodies and the sea, and she begins to break away from the Western education and customs she has received.
*Ko Ihwa (1916-2013) Haenyeo: Ko Ihwa was the recipient of Jeju’s first Haenyeo Awards in 2000, and she was the top of the ‘Sanggun’ having started practicing at the age of nine, making her the oldest Haenyeo in Jeju. Ko Ihwa is a living witness to the ‘Jeju Haenyeo activists’. The 1932 Jeju Haenyeo protest was the largest women’s protest movement in Korea, and she was a 16-year-old girl at the time. She played a big role in passing down the haenyeo songs that later became the basis of haenyeo culture.
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