Xoo-ang Choi, The Wing, 2008, Oil on Resin, 56x172x48 cm, Courtesy of the Artist and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Dear Shaded Viewers,
The exhibition, curated by Chu-young Lee, brings together the most significant contemporary Korean artists, who reinterpret and transform the evocative, period room of Spazio Lightbox into a dream scenery. The works on display covers different media and include installations, sculptures, videos, paintings and photos realized by 16 artists.
Inspired by Lewis Carroll's story Alice in Wonderland, Who is Alice? resembles a dreamlike experience, where the artists create with great spontaneity small unreal world. The artworks on display blur the everyday space and time boundaries and invite the viewer to an extraordinary experience, that winds along the ten Lightbox rooms with extraordinary tales.
At the entry of the exhibition space U-ram Choe's Pendulum of Secret welcomes the viewer to his journey. The mysterious black eyes of the woman portrayed in Jeong-wook Kim's Untitled work stir up shadows of fear and desire lodged deep inside the viewer, while the luminescent bodies of Hae-gue Yang's Female Natives and the photographs of Yeon-doo Jung's Bewitched make his childhood dreams magically come true. In the next rooms Hein-kuhn Oh
