Affinity90: 자선행사
This exhibition brings together the experimental and creative works of all artists who have previously shown at Gallery Chosun, allowing viewers to see them at once.
The exhibition includes work made during past preparations, works that were prepared but never shown, traces of the making process, pieces the artist wants to show again, and new works or ideas developed for future projects or specifically for this show. Sketches, drawings, photographs, and works in many other forms and media are placed in relation to one another. During the installation period, each artist sets up their own work while considering the space and how it connects with the works of other artists.
Artists study the exhibition space, adjust to it, and build the show through a close relationship with it. Some plan their work after seeing the space, while others adapt finished works to fit it. In this way, the artist, the artwork, and the space are tightly linked. The exhibition takes shape within the physical conditions of the gallery and its systems, structures, and display methods, and through these connections, the completed exhibition is presented to the audience.
To create this kind of exhibition, many different combinations are continuously formed. Through close connections with one another, shared approaches are explored again and again, sometimes defining the spirit of the time and sometimes pushing its limits.
This exhibition aims to reduce the way a single system or framework can narrow how works are viewed. It removes the usual structures that control and manage the experimental process of making an exhibition, and instead brings forward the artists’ detached, observant ways of seeing familiar things as unfamiliar. The works are shown on their own, regardless of theme, reflecting each artist’s way of thinking. Through new approaches to arrangement and placement, the works of 77 artists will be installed one after another within a limited space. This will create shifting relationships between works, spatial settings, and chance events, as well as moments of collision and mixing between artist and artworks. These close interactions within one space will lead to new forms of closeness and proximity.
Because much of this is left to the artists’ independent choices rather than prior discussion, attention must be paid to the role of chance as it unfolds. Taken as a whole, the exhibition offers a way to grasp the character and tendencies of the gallery; that is, its identity.
Events in social life, moments of awareness sparked by unfamiliar experiences, crowd psychology, and private desires and inner feelings all encourage us to see the everyday in new ways. Even if the works are not entirely new in form, the many different pieces in the exhibition space will each continue to play their own role.