“Miss Kim Lilac” Installation view at Post Territory Ujeongguk ©Post Territory UjeonggukMiss Kim Lilac, a solo exhibition by Jisoo Chung (b. 1990), will be on view from October 6 to 29 at the Post Territory Ujeongguk.
Chung is based in Seoul and Los Angeles, and her work focuses on the uncomfortable place caused by digital language and non-native English. Her work is based on multimedia with humor derived from linguistic errors such as autocorrect and mistranslation.
The exhibition starts with a flowering tree called ‘Miss Kim Lilac.’ Miss Kim Lilac was collected by botanist Elwin M. Meader from Korea and brought to the United States. It was named ‘Miss Kim Lilac’ by Meader. The plant gained attention in the international flower market and was reimported back to Korea.
The artist begins to explore the relationship between name and object, finding that the evolution of the name of this flowering plant is linked to the intersection of political and cultural power dynamics in Korea and the United States, cultural appropriation, and migrant identity. The exhibition features a video work that documents the history of Miss Kim Lilac and photographs of it. Next to the chairs where viewers sit to watch the video, photographs of Miss Kim Lilac move on a conveyor belt.
