I am your Body: Chapter 2 - Flesh
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I am your Body is a new exhibition series of which the first two chapters will initially take place at Kunsthal Aarhus in 2024. Chapter 2 – Flesh focuses on humanity, existence, physical properties.
Participating artists:
Yoonsuk Jung (KR), Zhang Huan (CN), Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (TH), Melati Suryodarmo (ID), He Chengyao (CN), Keunmin Lee (KR).
I am your Body: Chapter 2 – Flesh is a group show. In it, six East and South Asian artists discuss what humanity is.
Gallery 1 is designed like a movie theater. In it, two documentaries by filmmaker and artist Yoonsuk Jung (South Korea) – Non-Fiction Diary (2013) and Lash (2024) – are played. Jung's works are, fundamentally, about human existence and humanity, and they explore these concepts through images of humans sentenced to death, and of those who produce or consume human replacements.
Gallery 2 is an archive. It features performances from four established, internationally prominent and acclaimed artists born in the 1950 and 1960s – Zhang Huan (China), Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (Thailand), Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia), and He Chengyao (China) – mostly from early in their artistic practices. These performances show how bodies routinely act as part of societal mechanisms, and can therefore be used to explore complex and varied themes including political persecution, restrictive roles, absurdity, death, and endurance.
Gallery 3 is a rotunda which contains seven immersive paintings by Keunmin Lee (South Korea) which were specially commissioned for this exhibition. Titled Crimson Head, Connected Body, Connected Skin, and Organic Plate, they feature Lee’s personal experiences of hallucinations. These works drift between abstraction and figuration, containing forms that resemble human body parts and flesh.
Generously supported by:
Danish Arts Foundation, Aarhus Municipality, Augustinus Foundation, Beckett-Foundation, Knud Højgaards Foundation, Korea Artist Prize Promotion Fund, from SBS Foundation, and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and Art Square Moving.
