“Inventing Love 101” Poster ©Space Imsi
Space Imsi in Incheon will host the exhibition Inventing Love 101 from April 29 to May 26. This exhibition is a two-person show by Jaewon Kim and Sara Liu, curated by Stranger (Susie Bang, Lena Lee), who was selected for the ‘2023 Planning Competition’.
The ‘2023 Project Competition’ seeks to reinterpret the existing works of artists (at least two) to establish a relationship with the internal planning and research of Space Imsi in a different direction and speed, and to pursue archival exhibitions that are research-based and related to a socialized theme.
The exhibition Inventing Love 101 aims to explore the purpose and causes of invented love, as well as its necessity and methodology. Invented Love 101 is an active and proactive act of problem-solving, distinguishing it from traditional responses that rely on the single condition of time. Based on this awareness of the problem, the exhibition explores alternative perspectives in the works of Jaewon Kim and Sara Liu.
The two artists relentlessly explore and confront negative emotions such as fear, anger, and death and propose various imaginings of life in relation to queer time and intense emotional states that are temporarily accompanied by rapid emotional or physical changes.
Space Imsi began in September 2016 as a temporary project space for the imagination and practice of visual and cultural arts in the urban space of the Incheon Open Port Cultural District. It is a space for curatorial practice that organizes research-based exhibitions and projects for relocation and reconfiguration, especially in the context of trans-locality and eco-politics.
