PKM Gallery is pleased to invite you to the group performance of the artist Young In Hong (b.1972), a representative artist of PKM Gallery, at the Seoul Museum of Art.
Meta-hierarchical Exercise (2022) is a group performance advocating a set of objectives via audiovisual and tactile means. This is a project initiated by Hong’s intercultural research in 2018, looking at French 68 revolution archives (at National Archives Paris) alongside and in connection with the photo images she has been collecting from the Seoul Museum of History as well as (South Korean) online news. Keywords for this research were an association between history and patriarchy, women’s labour and industrialisation, the democratic movement fought for achieving equality in the 1960s and onwards, and printed slogans and leaflets reflecting on conflicting views. Based on this process, a set of stitched drawings was produced so they could function as a symbolic manual for a group performance.
Hong has been exploring the theme of ‘equality' in the form of art and has continued to rearrange the hierarchical order of the world. Produced using a wide range of mediums such as drawing, painting, installation, sound, performance, and text. Hong’s works are created through ‘sewing’-cheap labor done by female workers in Asia-and ‘embroidery’ which has not been considered fine art. Moreover, Hong’s artistic practices include performances attended by anonymous groups of participants, thus embracing the voices of individuals that have been left out of the grand narrative and weakening the authorities of the artists and their artworks.
Hong holds a Ph.D. in Art from Goldsmiths College, London, and has held numerous exhibitions and projects in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, UK, Italy, and France. In 2019, Hong was shortlisted for the year’s Korean Artist Prize hosted by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. She was awarded Kimsechoong Art Prize in 2011 and Suk-Nam Art Prize in 2003. Living and working in Bristol, Hong is currently a reader at Bath Spa University.
Booking is required as capacity is limited
Please RSVP directly to yjkim@pkmgallery.com