Dylan Seh-Jin Kim

Curatorial

Tu! Gift, Tu! Take
Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
8 December 2023 - 21 January 2024

Works by Camilla Carper, Ziedah Diata, Erica Enriquez, claudia yeejae kim, Lobbin Liu, Sidian Liu, So Jung Min, Eiko Nishida, Kai Oh, Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, Owen Park, Riven Ratanavanh, Albert Samreth, Alexander Si, Jakob Sitter, Merry Sun

Co-curated by Dylan Seh-Jin Kim and Samuel S.K. Moussan

AGORA and Tutu Gallery announce Tu! Gift, Tu! Take, a group exhibition featuring participatory, multidisciplinary works by 16 artists, that invites visitors in acts of exchange by allowing them to take home fragments of artworks or to contribute to them, a nod to the holiday gift-giving tradition. Casting the hybrid space of feline commercial gallerist Tutu and her human assistant April as “a relational incubator” to cultivate community, Tu! Gift, Tu! Take uses its unique context to interchange ideas of privatization and means of production, playfully highlighting the inherent “giving-and-taking” quality in the circulation of art and raising the question of where domesticity and humanness fit within capitalist structures in the art world. During this festive season, Tu! Gift, Tu! Take offers a space to reflect on constructed objects and services in a safe, lighthearted manner where visitors have autonomy over their experiences.

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