Familiar Yet New: Ten Artists Reflect on Korea in 'In Situ'
Creatrip Team
3 months ago
The Arko Museum's 'In Situ' exhibition presents work by ten resident artists who spent time at the new Arko artist residency in Pyeongchang-dong, Seoul. Selected through an open call, the artists worked in two cohorts (June–September and October–December) and turned their experiences of place into varied artworks that connect personal memory with local histories. Highlights include Japanese artist Yusuke Taninaka’s time- and healing-themed diagrammatic drawings inspired by iPS (induced pluripotent stem cell) science and medicinal herbs from Gyeongdong Market; Vietnamese artist Bui Bao Tram’s imaginary maps linking magpies and tiger graves in Seoul; Korean painter Yun Hang-ro’s canvases of shifting light and waterways observed between the residency and his Buam-dong home; and Polish photographer Katarzyna Masur’s juxtaposition of socialist-era family photos with images from Korea’s authoritarian past. Mozambican artist Ugo Mendes explores shared colonial memories through large spiritual-iconography prints. Curator Shin Bo-seul frames the show—on view across the museum’s first and second floors through Jan 18—as an exploration of the residency’s site-specific role: the creative space in Pyeongchang-dong, the exhibition venue in Daehangno, and each artist’s original homeland. ('In situ' is Latin for ‘in the original place')
