Installation view of 《Minibus》 ©ARKO Art Center
ARKO Art Center presents a collaborative
exhibition with Insa Art Space, titled 《Minibus, Oort
Cloud, Fluttering Pages》, through May 18. This
exhibition, organized by three collaborative curators and featuring 28 artists,
aspires to glance over the cultural legacy left by Insa Art Space (hereafter
“IAS”) over its 25 years of existence.
Among these diverse IAS initiatives, this
exhibition is specifically focused on the following three: support for emerging
artists, promotion of video media, and publishing of visual arts journals.
Three curators who have come through ARKO’s curator incubating programs have
drawn upon their own research and activities to organize three sub-exhibitions
that each channel these three initiatives indirectly.
Installation view of 《Oort Cloud》 ©ARKO Art Center
Each exhibition, respectively, “sets disappearance as a condition to reconsider the identity assigned to IAS and the method of historical narration.” (《Minibus》, curated by Hyukgue Kwon), “contemplates the site of moving images through adjacent technological supports while taking into account the impossibility of operating a media archive within today’s technological environment” (《Oort Cloud》, curated by Shinjae Kim), and “showcases a publication that employs the vibrations and microhistories between art, space, and people to newly interweave the last days of IAS” (《Fluttering Pages》, curated by Dohee Kim).
Installation view of 《Fluttering Pages》 ©ARKO Art Center
IAS operated by the Arko Art Center long
maintained its uniqueness as a space that welcomed diverse activities from
young artists. The Wonseo-dong era of IAS ends this June, and while there are
no plans for its next location, the legacy of IAS will continue to be summoned
and gain new contexts through various future exhibitions and projects, just as
in this exhibition. Taking the memories of IAS as their starting points, 《Minibus, Oort Cloud, and Fluttering Pages》
collect the space’s marks in the contemporary art world, and aspire to link
them to the present and the future.
Participating Artists: 《Minibus》 Kang Seok
Ho, Gwon Osang, Kim Sollee, Rho Eunjoo, Moon Isaac, Park Gwangsoo, Yagwang / 《Oort Cloud》 Kim Kyulim, Yi Minji, Han Uri,
Hong Jin-hwon, Hwang Hyo Duck / 《Fluttering Pages》
Koh Jaewook, Kwon Sea Jung, Kim Yongkwan, Masil Collective,
Moon Isaac, Park Haeyun, Shin Je Hyun, Shin Ji-sun, Lee Seang-gang, Lim Sung
Yon, Chung Hee Young, Cho Sang In, Jo Seub, Cho Youngjoo, Cho Eunji, Choi
Soyeon
