Check out the latest edition of my weekly art column for The L Magazine, Wicked Artsy, in which I discuss three exhibitions that question how art reflects and shapes the ways we create, preserve and re-evaluate cultural heritage and memories. To say that art is simply a way of preserving a culture is incredibly naive, and all three exhibitions I addressed seemed aware – to one degree or another – that to mediate cultural memory is immediately to change and adapt it. The most sophisticated engagement with this double-edged impulse towards conservation was undertaken by Yeondoo Jung in his current show Handmade Memories (pictured at right) at Tina Kim Gallery. Read the whole article here.
Wicked Artsy: Picturing Cultural Memory
Check out the latest edition of my weekly art column for The L Magazine, Wicked Artsy, in which I discuss three exhibitions that question how art reflects and shapes the ways we create, preserve and re-evaluate cultural heritage and memories. To say that art is simply a way of preserving a culture is incredibly naive, and all three exhibitions I addressed seemed aware – to one degree or another – that to mediate cultural memory is immediately to change and adapt it. The most sophisticated engagement with this double-edged impulse towards conservation was undertaken by Yeondoo Jung in his current show Handmade Memories (pictured at right) at Tina Kim Gallery. Read the whole article here.
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