16th Gwangju Biennale , You Must Change Your Life
Group Exhibition Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, South Korea

Artists: Amanda HENG Liang Ngim 王良吟 | 

“You Must Change Your Life,” the Biennale’s title, repeats the last line of Austrian poet Raine Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo.” The narrator of Rilke’s brief verse looks upon the ruined torso—headless, limbless—of the titular Greek god and imagines a low light inside it which bursts forth, evoking Apollo’s return and the statue’s transformation. The verse suggests the reader take charge of his fate, rather than waiting for it to befall him. Accordingly, the exhibition will examine the transformative power of art amid the turbulence of contemporary times.

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