Participating Artists Marina
Abramović, Delphine Balley, Nicola Costantino, Nathalie Djuberg, A.K.
Dolven, Young In Hong, Siren eun young Jung, Jane Jin Kaisen, Nayoung Kim &
Gregory Maass, Shirin Neshat, Boryana Rossa, Mika Rottenberg, Julika Rudelius, Salla
Tykkä As a project celebrating the 10th
anniversary of Coreana Museum of Art, Tell
Me Her Story examines narratives on women’s lives based on a wide array of
materials like documentaries, autobiographical experiences, novels, films and
myths around females, which stands on the border between reality and fiction.
On the ground these narratives, this survey deals with various contexts of
women’s lives of the present day including the ethics of the other, female
labor and separation in the globalized world and the violation of
institutionalized systems. Also, not only Western artists but also non-Western
artists like Korean, Latin American participate the exhibition, narrating the
stories of women as ‘difference’ across culture and history. This exhibition mainly
concerns with the narratives of active women who can embrace others in more
opened manner and act against fixed systems, moving beyond narratives that
disclose the context of established ideologies like patriarchal society or
suppression. In addition, the effects of globalism and global neoliberalism are
also much felt in the lives of women all over the world, which forms the
background to elicit another kind of narratives on women in social contexts. Specially, like migratory
labor and social status of Asian women in pan-national migrations under global
capitalism, the diaspora of Koran women is addressed in the exhibition. The display of this
exhibition extends to the space of Coreana Museum of Cosmetics creates a unique
opportunity to perceive contexts of heterogeneity or homogeneity when stories
of the tradition and the present, those of Korean and Western females’ lives
collide. Hosted by Coreana Museum of Art
Supported by Coreana Cosmetics, Co., Ltd., Seoul
Metropolitan Government Marina Abramović, The Kitchen1_Levitation of Saint Theresa, HD video installation, 11min 21sec, 2009 Courtesy of the artist Nicola Costantino, Trailer, video, 3min 16sec, 2010 Courtesy of the artist Shirin Neshat, Women Without Men, film, 99min, 2009 Courtesy of the artist Young In Hong, Miners' Talking Women, embroidered texts on silk and cotton, 2009. Installation view at Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul Siren Eun Young Jung, The Unexpected Response, single channel video, 4min 35sec, 2009 Courtesy of the artist Jane Jin Kaisen, The Woman, The Orphan, The Tiger, single channel video, 76min, 2010 Courtesy of the artist Nayounggim & Gregory Maass, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, mixed media installation, single channel video, 8min 26sec, 2013. Installation view at Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul Mika Rottenberg, Mary Boone with Cube, digital c-print(1component of Squeeze installation), 162.6x91.4cm, 2010. Courtesy of the artist