Jeamin Cha, Four Variations, 2023. Photo: AN Chorong. ©Seoul Museum of Art
The
Seo-Seoul Museum of Art presents SeMA performance 《Breathing》 as a special opening exhibition, on view through April 12.
To be
held annually at the art museum, SeMA performance will introduce contemporary
artists who have created performance-based works through profound reflection on
time and space and human action and support new creations and experiments.
Posing the question “What is performance?” it will imagine new uses for the
space of the art museum through artistic movements, sounds, lighting, voices,
and objets that reflect nature, culture, and history.
Sun Oh, Alive, 2021/2025/2026. Photo: AN Chorong. ©Seoul Museum of Art
Heralding
the start of the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA performance 《Breathing》 involves the participation of a
total of 25 artists/teams, understanding humans and the environment as media
and exploring intersections of the body, society, and the arts under the topic
of breathing, which is an organic movement.
Seeing
air as a medium that sustains movement, cognition, and life, it will examine
beings and lives in the atmospheric environment and mutually connected
relations. Breath receives the global environment through the body via
alternating movements of opening and closing, expansion and contraction, and
generates action as a driving force of life through the continuous exchange of
materials between the inside and outside.
In the
space of the art museum, where air drifts, the body, the basis and habitat of
human existence, becomes an index sensing invisible changes as an ecological
and ontological medium. Movements to measure and coordinate states, and
variable emotions and voices simultaneously execute the scores of performances
as physical and emotional actions and reveal nonlinear and polyphonic time and
space.
Young-jun Tak, Calling, 2026. Photo: Jiyoung Lee. ©Seoul Museum of Art
Further
details and the full schedule for SeMA Performance 《Breathing》—which creates diverse points of contact with a world that is
continuously forming and dissolving—can be found on the website of the Seoul
Museum of Art.
Participating
Artists: Donghwan Kam, Sojin Kwak, GRAYCODE, jiiiiin, KIMON, Jung
Hyun Nam, Ro Kyung Ae, Dappertutto Studio, Eunju Park, AN Chorong, Jeamin Cha,
Min Oh, Sun Oh, HYEONTAEK OH, Jae Pil Eun, Minjae Lee, Shinhoo Yhi, Yunjung
Lee, Jee-Ae Lim, Su-Mi Jang, Jeong Seyoung, Seungho Jo, Ikjung Cho, Jo Hyunjin,
Jimin Hah, Young-jun Tak, F-A-E Archive(KWON YOHAN, KANG DANIEL, KIM SOONA),
Hwang Soo Hyun
