APR 1 MAY 9
Artistic directors Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala assembled works by 69 artists from 40 countries under the (2021), an installation of banners bearing motifs from Jindoisland funeral processions placed in shopping carts and mixed with consumer items. Alternative communities and networks of resistance were evoked by Kang Seung Lee’s installation (2020), which displays materials related to queer figures, such as pages of a transgender woman’s diary, from the Korean Queer Archive. In a section about matriarchy, Femke Herregraven’s (2021) highlights the female divers () of Jeju Island through sculptural forms and a sonic space based on the whistle that they emit while resurfacing. Similarly drawing on Jeju’s culture and history, Korakrit Arunanondchai’s multimedia installation (2021) is narrated by a sea turtle who expands on the artist’s interest in the ghost as a metaphor for historical erasures.
