Installation view
of 《B-Class Jokes》 ©Jeonbuk Museum of ArtJeonbuk Museum of Art presents a special
exhibition 《B-Class Jokes》 on
view through September 2. The 《B-Class Jokes》 focuses on the stories of beings regarded as so-called
"second-class", fragments pushed out by neoliberalism and capitalist
conditions of life, and shed light on art practice that resist the logic of
totality that reemerging today.
Based on the aesthetics of “B-class” and
juxtaposition, the artworks in the exhibition use strategies to confront the
ideology of dichotomous norms and inclusion-exclusion through various
languages, and propose reflections on the possibility of an alternative and
sustainable world.
Installation view
of 《B-Class Jokes》 ©Jeonbuk Museum of ArtThe exhibition is composed of three
chapters, inviting spectator, the artist and the art museum itself as members
of the community called the ‘exhibition'. Chapter 1 explores how art dismantles
the dichotomies such as high-low or normal-abnormal, and intervenes in
'democracy from below'.
This chapter interpellates the spectator
into the ambivalent position of both ‘viewer’ and ‘citizen’, questioning the
contradiction of in attitude of looking at the 'aesthetically' through the
overlapping portraits of beings who still remain in the position of the 'other'
and visualize today's fragmented community.
Chapter 2 asks about the visibility and
productivity of time as an economic resource when everyday actions combine with
art practice. This question is linked to an imagination of an equal world
beyond the Capitalocene at the intersection of heterogeneous elements such as
present and future, reality and ideal, etc.
Installation view
of 《B-Class Jokes》 ©Jeonbuk Museum of ArtChapter 3 explores the role of art museums
as a public sphere where a discourse on the conditions of capitalist life
unfolds through works that overlap the forms of art and a reality in which
market logic and exploitation have become everyday conditions, converting
everything into exchange value.
As implied in the title, The 《B-Class Jokes》 is a site where the stories
of "second-class citizens" who resist the hierarchy and rigidity of
norms that still classify beings intersect through the community of exhibition,
and where an attempt to synchronize discourse and practice take place.
Participating
Artists: Oksun
Kim, Dahoon Nam, Hansol Noh, Dew Kim, Martha Rosler, Bang Jeong A, Soh Boram,
Angelica Mesiti, Yanagi Miwa, Eom Soohyeon, eobchae x Sungsil Ryu, Kang Seung
Lee, Sunmin Lee, Younguk Yi, Eunsae Lee, Lee Jee yang, Nahwan Jeon, Yeondoo
Jung, Siren Eun Young Jung, Jakob Grosse-Ophoff, jol bea, Claire Fontaine, Heo
Taewon
