Dylan Seh-Jin Kim
Curatorial
Maybe—map(ping) dissonance
NARS Foundation
22 November 2024 - 11 December 2024
Works by Jen Aitken, Sheyda Azar, Philippe Caron Lefebvre, Béatrice Côté, Lafina Eptaminitaki, Ian Ha, Ali Kaeini, Woojae Kim, Jung Won Lee, Jieun Lim, Letizia Scarpello, Sao Tanaka and Jeehee Yoo
Curated by Dylan Seh-Jin Kim
Open Rehearsal: I hear a silent dissonance
Performances by Woojae Kim with collaborator Rahul Nair.
23 November 2024 at 6PM & 6 December 2024 at 7PM
NARS Foundation is pleased to present Maybe—map(ping) dissonance, an exhibition featuring the Season IV 2024 International Residency Artists, curated by NARS Curatorial Fellow Dylan Seh-Jin Kim.
The artists in the exhibition react to the conflicted noises of today and employ the process of map(ping) to contemplate on our global dissonance, historical and present conflict, transitory presence, landscape ideology, and material form. They point to the unharmonious chords that layer our everyday life and occur when we resist openness and too quickly embrace finality, purity, and enclosure.
Rather than suggesting total rigidity over the works in constellation, the residency exhibition goes against its fixed conditions—of residency, of gallery, and of final curatorial determination—to open up space for the works to exist in multiplicity, in complexity, and in a perpetual process of becoming.
Over the period of the exhibition, works in Maybe—map(ping) dissonance are displayed serially through several installations, which is made visible by the installation traces and markings in the gallery. By resisting a final categorization and embracing multiple forms, the exhibition allows the works to exist in a polyrhythm and the public to bear witness to the exhibition’s process of becoming, and simultaneously, multiplicity. Two interventions take place when the works are moved from one installation to another.
The first installation of works occurs from November 22, 2024 to November 28, 2024.
The second occurs from November 29, 2024 to December 5, 2024.
And, the third occurs from December 6, 2024 to December 11, 2024.