“Anthología: Ten Enchanting Spells” Installation view at Buk-Seoul Museum of Art © Seoul Museum of Art
From August 3 to October 25, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (Buk-SeMA) will present Anthología: Ten Enchanting Spells. Ten artists are participating: Gijeong Goo, Hyewon Kwon, Seulki Ki, Sangjin Kim, Rho Eunjoo, Park Kyung Ryul, PARK, Seong Jun, Bahc Yiso, Byungkoo Jeon, Jaewon Che.
The exhibition, organized for the 10th anniversary of the Buk-SeMA, focuses on the formal and thematic essence of imagination. The exhibition views imagination as an infinite source of value creation and an extension of space and time and seeks to explore imagination through the structure of language. According to the preface, the works visually embody the linguistic structures, such as “resetting of conditions”, “questions as signs,” and “rhetorical strategy.” The exhibition begins with Gijeong Goo’s < Exceeded Scenes > (2021/2023), which reconstructs the surrounding landscape of soil, leaves, and moss with digital images and videos composited in a 3D space. This is followed by Bach Yiso’ < Your Bright Future > (2002), a series of lamps that illuminate the walls, and Seulki Ki’s chronological arrangement of poster which held since the opening of the Buk-SeMA, with most of the text information removed. A standout is < Under the Magnolia Tree > (2023), a video of the poet Jaewon Che’s eleven new poems written for the exhibition. The poems, which are shown in white letters on a black screen, function as a third space that, according to the description, adds to the richness of the exhibition.
The root word of the exhibition’s name, ‘anthología’, etymologically means “gathering of flowers”, and in this way, the exhibition aims to bring together and unfold the past, present, and future of the museum’s 10th anniversary.
