Watermarks Seeping Through Concrete

October 5, 2024 - October 5, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Fellows of Contemporary Art
970 N Broadway STE 208, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Watermarks Seeping Through Concrete

Exhibition dates: October 5 – November 30, 2024

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 15 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM

Water Marks Seeping Through Concrete challenges conventional narratives on marginalized identities by delving into spaces, languages, and everyday lives shaped by Western hegemony. These historical narratives eliminate the specificities of individuals, cultures, and histories that dont belong to the norm,” leaving space only for further marginalization. The proposed exhibition brings together a collection of creative, adaptive, yet persistent practices that critically examine how those false perceptions about othered beings, such as immigrants and queer individuals, have been perpetuated by authorities. The featured artists interweave layers of power dynamics surrounding naming, physical labor, and institutional space. The exhibition presents creative and poetic approaches to reappropriating remnants from the past and scaffolding alternatives to the concrete norms of contemporary American society.

Through video, sculpture, and installation, Jisoo Chung, Woohee Cho, and jinseok choi intricately merge their own experiences with historical accounts. Jisoo Chung playfully incorporates her voice, body, and personal encounters in a video that traces the origins of the plant, Miss Kim Lilac. This experimental documentary explores the dynamics of geopolitical agents involved in the plants importation to the US from Korea, delving into the complex aspects of naming. In Looking For Museum Fun, Woohee Cho explores queer intimacy while reimagining a museum space as a queer cruising site. A bathroom stall, constructed from insulation foam, houses the artists intimate memories, participant’s handwritten reflections on relationships, and documentation of an uninvited performance. In the Creatures series, jinseok choi sews together scrap fabrics collected from Los Angeles garment factories to create creatures that embody collectivity while preserving the fabrics’ original shapes, textures, and colors. The soft sculptures’ distorted forms, shaped by the irregularities of the fabric pieces, are animated by breathing movements, evoking the everyday labor and bodies of the factory workers. By unearthing tactile and intimate stories from the past, these artists and works challenge dominant historical narratives and shed light on the marks and traces left by overlooked yet resilient voices.

Curator Bio

MOTOR is an artist-run initiative operating within and around the greater Los Angeles area. Applying experimentation as its point of ignition, MOTOR explores unconventional approaches to artistic presentation while embracing practices of temporality, modularity, and play. MOTOR encourages the overlooked and complex by cultivating communal engagement and collective experience through micro-programming. MOTOR was founded in 2021 by jinseok choi, Alberto Keossian, aol, and Alan S. Tofighi.

Participating Artists:

Jisoo Chung, Woohee Cho, and jinseok choi

 

Curators Lab Exhibition

Water Marks Seeping Through Concrete

October 5, 2024 - November 30, 2024
Fellows of Contemporary Art
Artist: Jisoo Chung , Woohee Cho , jinseok choi
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