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DIAMONDS - 2007
Wood, White Housepaint, Fluorescent Fixtures, Custom Steel Joints (fabricated), Cables, Screws, Electricity and other attachments
Collaborative Installation in Ssamzie Gil for Ssamzie Gallery, Insadong, Seoul

As part of EXHIBITION WHITE, July 2007
conceived, built, and installed on-site in two weeks

Artists:
Kari Altmann, Kim Bentley, Adeetje Bouma, Viviana Cordova, Isak Chung, Claire Cochran, Candace Fong, Jiah Lim, Soo Kang, Nara Park, Pete Razon, Yena Chang

Curators and Directors:
Mina Cheon, George Ciscle, Eve Laramee, Gabriel Kroiz, Eugene Ahn

(FEATURE IN NY ARTS Magazine)

Tags: VIRUS, FRAMES, PEARL, GEM, CULTURE,

These three original diamonds now belong to the permanent collection of the Ssamzie Art Warehouse Museum in Paju, Korea.
Two new diamonds were reconstructed for the Baltimore version of the show, made possible by a sponsorship from Ssamzie Co.

BACKGROUND INFO:

As part of the 2007 Ssamzie/MICA/KNUA Summer Residency Program, a group of young art students were asked to collaborate on EXHIBITION WHITE in Ssamzie Gil, Ssamzie Gallery and Gallery 175 in Insadong, Seoul. Through shared experiences of Korean culture, documentation, collection, and dialogue (supplemented by theory readings and led by Mina Cheon, George Ciscle, Eve Laramee & Gabriel Kroiz), an exhibition was born in two weeks, on-site. With ties to academic institutions (including class requirements and grading), the entire residency was more of an experimentally directed performance of tests and exercises.

Instructed by the directors to create an exhibition focusing on the current state of whiteness, feminism, weddings, and fantasy capital in Seoul, each artist was required to create an individual work for Ssamzie Gallery and Gallery 175, as well as collaborate on a large-scale outdoor installation for Ssamzie Gil.

CHEONG GHYE CHEON Market

Working around language barriers and through physical and cultural limits, the artists relied heavily on the resources of the CheongGhyeCheon markets, where wholesale materials can be purchased directly and informally, as well as constructed into custom designs in a very short timeframe.