Yeondoo Jung, Crow’s Eye View, 2022, Immersive video, 14min. 16sec. ©Ulsan Art Museum
The Daegu Art Museum is holding the Daegu Forum III, “Whose Forest, Whose World”, on view through June 2. The ‘Daegu Forum’ is a theme-discovery curatorial exhibition started in 2021 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the museum’s opening and for the coming new decade. The current Daegu Forum exhibition was curated to reflect on anthropocentric narratives and awaken a new ecological sensibility through diverse contemporary artworks by artists in Korea and abroad about the crisis of the environment and ecology.
“Whose Forest, Whose World” is an occasion for reflecting on the entities, sights, and times we objectified and marginalized for narratives in which people centrally feature on the small planet of Earth. This exhibition slowly examines, inside and out, today’s nature, nonhuman entities, and scenery in the growth of cities and civilization, which people have been developing. Through this, it asks whose forest and whose world the small but giant forest called the Earth we stand on is.
The exhibition consists of the three sections of ‘Flowers Do Not Bloom & Birds Do Not Chirp Even Though Spring Has Arrived’, ‘Forgotten Face’, ‘Patched World’, and ‘Belonging to the World, & Existing Together in the World’; and the thirteen artists KANG Honggoo, KWON Hyewon, KIM Oksun, KIM Yujung, BEAK Jungki, SONG Sanghee, LI Setbyul, CHANG Hanna, CHUNG Zuyoung, JUNG Haejung, MINSUN, Anicka YI, and Tomás SARACENO are exhibiting.
“Whose Forest, Whose World” seeks to prepare a place for being able to reflect on our present selves and nature, ultimately reset the future relationship between nature and humans in the Anthropocene and beyond, and discuss symbiosis.
