Minha Park, Serin Oh, Eunhee Lee, Eobchae, Theoodulos Polyviou
Presented within Dark Factory, a group exhibition.
Curated by Giulia Colletti & Andrew Cummings.
Supported by MMCA Changdong Residency.
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[...] The work brings together two sites of storage: unused vitrines and exhibition ephemera from the MMCA collection, and environmental data recorded inside the Museum of Shamanism in Seoul. Sensors placed in the Shamanic collection’s storage record fluctuations in temperature, humidity, air pressure, and airflow. The data is understood not as scientific evidence, but as a way of listening to the collection, with a focus on its shamanic paintings. These environmental traces, evocative of “shinbaram”, the divine breeze of presence in Korean shamanic practice, are used to animate the lighting of dormant museum cabinets. The installation reflects on the fluctuating status of the paintings, as they move between sacred function and museological containment, to consider how spiritual agency may remain active across different contexts of display, where gods may consent to or withdraw from visibility, and where they might, in turn, act as curators themselves. [...]
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