Group Exhibition Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Preview:
Friday 11.10.2024, at 4:30 pm.
I am your Body is a new exhibition series of which the first two chapters will initially take place at Kunsthal Aarhus in 2024. Chapter 2 – Flesh focuses on humanity, existence, physical properties. In it, six East and South Asian artists discuss what humanity is.
Gallery 1 is designed like a movie theater. In it, two documentaries by filmmaker and artist Yoonsuk Jung (South Korea) – Non-Fiction Diary (2013) and Lash (2024) – are played. Jung's works are, fundamentally, about human existence and humanity, and they explore these concepts through images of humans sentenced to death, and of those who produce or consume human replacements.
Gallery 2 is an archive. It features performances from four established, internationally prominent and acclaimed artists born in the 1950 and 1960s – Zhang Huan (China), Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (Thailand), Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia), and He Chengyao (China) – mostly from early in their artistic practices. These performances show how bodies routinely act as part of societal mechanisms, and can therefore be used to explore complex and varied themes including political persecution, restrictive roles, absurdity, death, and endurance.
Gallery 3 is a rotunda which contains seven immersive paintings by Keunmin Lee (South Korea) which were specially commissioned for this exhibition. Titled Crimson Head, Connected Body, Connected Skin, and Organic Plate, they feature Lee’s personal experiences of hallucinations. These works drift between abstraction and figuration, containing forms that resemble human body parts and flesh.
Facebook
Instagram
WeChat 微信