Poster image of 《The 12th
Amado Annualnale》 ©Amado Art SpaceAmado Art Space presents 《The 12th Amado Annualnale》 until June 13. Launched in 2013 as the inaugural exhibition of
Amado Art Space, the Amado Annualnale is a project that aims to spotlight the
diverse discourses that emerge during the creation and development of artworks.
Over the past eleven iterations, the Annualnale has engaged with
the relationships and collaborations between participants—artists and
curators—and explored the intersections and dialogues arising from those
dynamics. As the generative and ever-evolving nature of artistic creation and
mediation is inherently ephemeral, the project seeks to make these processes
visible through the format of an exhibition and the tangible form of artworks.
However, despite foregrounding process as an artistic object,
the core of the Amado Annualnale is not to treat process merely as a means to a
predetermined end or a fixed outcome. Instead, through programs like the
“Nansang” Roundtable, the project brings all phases surrounding the
exhibition—before and after—into the realm of critique, preparing the ground
for further processes triggered by the process itself.
While maintaining this foundational framework, the project has
also experimented with various formats over the past eleven years to avoid
becoming fixed or institutionalized.
For its twelfth edition, the Annualnale presents the unfolding
“processes” of four teams selected through last year’s open call: Yeeun Bang
(artist) × Oh Hyun-Kyung (curator), Bae Hansol (artist) × Kim Jaehee (curator),
Leebinsoyeon (artist) × Lee Borum (curator), and Jangso-Translator (artist) ×
Jihye Jung (curator). The exhibition traces their journeys from the initial
proposal stage through to the realization of the exhibition, while also
examining what these shared journeys have aimed for—and what they might become.
