Installation view of 《Washingtonia》 ©ARARIO GALLERYThe
large-scale group exhibition 《Washingtonia》, featuring 38 contemporary artists from Korea and abroad, is being
held at Gallery Remicon and SEETANGRAUM in Jeju Island through November 15.
The
exhibition takes the Washington palms transplanted to Jeju Island during the
tourist development of the 1980s as its point of departure, exploring the
concept of “transplantation” within contemporary ecological and cultural
contexts. Here, transplantation is understood not merely as the act of moving
plants, but as a process in which the unfamiliar takes root in society and
culture, disrupting existing orders.
The
exhibition examines the structural conditions that drive such movement—capital,
institutions, and technology—alongside the relationships that transplanted
entities form with native ecologies, and, further, the possibilities of
hybridity and boundary crossing.
Installation view of 《Washingtonia》 ©ARARIO GALLERYIn doing so, the exhibition seeks to view transplantation as a
creative force that simultaneously anticipates dissonance and coexistence,
competition and symbiosis—a dynamic field of negotiation among diverse beings.
Through 《Washingtonia》, viewers are invited to sensually experience the tensions and new
horizons that arise between disappearance and (re)rooting, between the familiar
and the unfamiliar, and to reflect on transplantation as an essential form of
knowledge and a source of imagination for living in today’s world.
Participating Artists: Achref Bettaieb, Andrew Ananda Voogel, Choi Nakjun, Choi
Taehoon, Dan Kim, Heyo, Jin Hong, Im Jihyun, Im Heung-soon, Jun Hyerim, Jeon
Nahwan, Jeong Juwon, Jung Yeondoo, Jeong Youngho, Kang Jewan, Kang Jihye, KDK,
Kim Dongsub, Kim Kyungran, Kseniia Galiaeva, Ian Ha, Lee Seunghoon, Lee Wan,
Lim Changkon, Lim Nosik, Moon Isaac, Nawin Nuthong, Roh Eunju, Park Eunjung,
Park Grim, Park Juae, Park Wunggyu, Sadao Hasegawa, Silas Fong, Sue Park, Yang
Geunbae, Yo-E Ryou, Yoo Jinsik
