[10기 케잇 허스 리 개인전] Past Persephone - Berlin
2019-03-15(Fri) ~ 2019-04-06(Sat)
Galerie Irrgang(베를린, 독일)
케잇 허스 리(Kate-hers RHEE)(10기)
▷ 전 시 명 : Past Persephone - Berlin
▷ 참여작가 : 케잇 허스 리 (Kate-hers RHEE)
▷ 전시기간 : 3월15일 ~ 4월6일 , 2019
▷ 전시장소 : Galerie Irrgang ( Friedrichstraße 232, 10969 Berlin, 독일)
Interdisciplinary visual artist kate-hers RHEE explores transnational identity and the construction of self, while discussing gender, migration, and global inequality. Her work engages with the reassessment of, and post-colonial discourses surrounding ethnographic collections. She invents new cultural artefacts, ethnographic symbols and living breathing anthropology. Above all, her work seeks to be a catalyst for spiritual transformation through materiality and meticulous processes. In the exhibition, Past Persephone, the artist draws on ancient cosmology legends, Native American and ancient Greek mythology, and East Asian historical (mis)memory about the Comfort Women. She incorporates Korean traditional instruments associated with harvest and folk artefacts with modern beauty consumer goods. Her transnational feminist artworks subvert the male gaze and dismantle the orientalist perspective.
With the aim of a portrayal of femininity that is female centered and free of lookism, RHEE’s installation Seven Sisters refers to inventions that were created in order to control the female body or service the male body. This memorial installation pays tribute to women, who have been oppressed, sexually abused, and/or discriminated against because of a global patriarchal misogyny, especially the comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery during the Second World War at the time of Japanese occupation. The Female Shaman is a spiritual, cultural artefact that ponders the cosmos, while confronting two different kinds of cultural appropriation that are entangled with modern German history, namely the swastika and the Nebra Sky Disk. The self-aggrandising Winners Take All is a gaudy wall installation composed entirely of kitschy but meticulously fabricated unique prize ribbons, growing out of a corner of the gallery like mold. Evoking the consolation prize of grammar school competitions, a winner of such a prize toots his/her own horn, praising him/herself for being “woke.”
참고 : http://meanwhileelsewhere.de/
