ACC NEXT Spotlights 16 Works by Emerging Asian Artists
Creatrip Team
a month ago
Gwangju’s National Asia Culture Center (ACC) is presenting 'ACC NEXT,' an exhibition of emerging Asian artists through March 29 in Complex Exhibition Hall 5. The program supports promising early-career creators and showcases new works that map contemporary Asian art trends. Five teams (six artists) from Korea, China and Taiwan contribute 16 pieces in video, installation, sound and performance. Korean artists Kang Su-ji and Lee Ha-young stage a fictional idol birthday café in 'Democratizing Fandom' to imagine fandom as a new form of democratic solidarity; Lee Ju-yeon presents documentary works including 'Heavy Weather' tracing rumors and traces of missing female factory workers near Danginri Power Plant; Ishima’s pieces, inspired by soul marriage rituals, critique societal norms that can act violently toward minorities; Yu-Yan Wang (China/Paris) visualizes how digital data shapes emotions and perception like unpredictable 'weather'; Chiu Zhi-Yen (Taiwan) examines distorted and silenced memories around emergency rule and the 2/28 Incident through video installation. ACC’s director says the show aims to imagine the future of Asian art through experimentation and exchange.
