참여작가 Artists
밍 웡 Ming Wong︎︎︎
백현주 Heaven Baek︎︎︎
부스 리노 Vuth Lyno︎︎︎
사이먼 순 & 무니라 만수르 Simon Soon &
Munirah Mansoor︎︎︎
심 치인 Sim Chiyin︎︎︎
이 이란 Yee I-lann︎︎︎
정나영 Nayoung Jeong︎︎︎
정여름 Yeoreum Jeong︎︎︎
제이슨 위 Jason Wee︎︎︎
최대진 Daejin Choi︎︎︎
타다 헹삽쿨 Tada Hengsapkul︎︎︎
클라우드 프로젝트 Cloud projects︎︎︎
파이룰 달마 Fyerool Darma︎︎︎
피오 아바드 Pio Abad︎︎︎
싱가포르와 필리핀을 경유해 대한민국 부산으로 이어진 《먼 곳의 친구에게》는 캐슬린 딧지그와 카를로스 키혼 주니어가 기획한 장기 연구 프로젝트 ‘아프로-동남아시아(Afro-Southeast Asia)’의 세번째 전시로 임수영이 함께 기획했다. 이번 전시는 세계 2차대전 이후 급격하게 재편된 국제 정세를 바탕으로 아프리카와 동남아시아가 도모했던 지역적 교류를 살펴본 《In Our Best Interest: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities during a Cold War》(ADM갤러리, 싱가포르)와, 동남아시아를 중심으로 펼쳐진 외교적 실험과 정치의 역학을 탐구한 《Cast But One Shadow: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities》(바가스 미술관, 마닐라) 전시에서 소개한 담론과 맥락을 한국으로 확장한다. 제목이 시사하듯, 특히 이번 전시에서는 ‘우정’이라는 은유, 개념, 혹은 행위를 통해 다양한 지리시학적 연대와 지정학적 열망을 조명하고자 한다.
This exhibition’s title, To A Faraway Friend: Beyond Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, takes inspiration from the 2021 novel 미래 산책 연습 (Future Stroll Practice) by Park Solmoe. [1] The book unfolds across the historic streets and quiet alleyways of Busan, tracing historic moments in the Republic of Korea’s democratization movement, which shares affinities with wider histories of independence movements in Southeast Asia and Africa. In the story, slow walking becomes a form of remembering the city’s forgotten past, and a way of practicing the future to which we aspire. Taking place at the ASEAN Culture House, this exhibition similarly adopts an itinerant and iterative approach to unpacking granular histories of regionalisms. Works presented in the show by fifteen artists from the Republic of Korea and the nations of ASEAN reflect on the geopoetics of diplomatic encounters, moments of friction, and strategic alignments that have shaped, and continue to shape, geopolitical landscapes across the globe since the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
Marking the third iteration of Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities, which was conceived as a long-term research project by Kathleen Ditzig and Carlos Quijon, Jr., To A Faraway Friend has been curated with Sooyoung Leam and extends the discursive and regional scope of the previous exhibitions held in Singapore (In Our Best Interests: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities during a Cold War) and Manila (Cast But One Shadow: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities), respectively, to the Republic of Korea. As its title suggests, the exhibition focuses on the repercussions and pragmatics of friendships to explore geopoetic affiliations and geopolitical aspirations of Afro-Southeast Asia and beyond.