Exhibition Information

			Taken from the Q&A section of the Seoul’s public art museum website and inspired by overheard conversations of museum-goers, the title of the exhibition begins by posing questions. These questions, however trivial or perfunctory they may seem, are crucial devices that focus our attention to the ways in which we approach and access exhibitions and art in general. Beginning as a simple response to a statement in the gallery’s open call brief that explicitly restricted access during monsoon seasons, this exhibition seeks to destabilize and disrupt any assumptions about the way we engage with art exhibitions through a simple act: by flooding the gallery space.

The exhibition space is an inconspicuous underground boiler room of a former post office, once functioning as the site where water, electricity, and heat energy were generated, transferred, and circulated throughout the entire building. Characterized by a simple rectangular plan with two openings that lead to a crawl space that loops around under the building, the interconnected pipes and traces of circuitry hint at the space’s original function. The artists’ largest intervention, a spatial installation that ‘casts’ the entire interior surface of the space using aluminum foil and tape, transforms the space into a sculptural vessel that contains all other works—a claim that the space, indeed, is part of the work, or rather, shapes the work and the ways we experience them.
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Curator :  Vincent Ahn
Installation Assistant : Mobin Kim

(source = Post Territory Ujeongguk)