origin

Origin is a group exhibition curated by Joshua Hashemzadeh and includs works by Yang Jung Uk, Sydney Croskery, and Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza. This show aims to highlight their respective practices as they look to sourcing found objects as a way to convey contemporary critical discourses and autobiographical narratives. This exhibition was on display at Baik Art from May 19, 2018, through July 28, 2018. An opening reception was held on Saturday, May 19, 2018, from 6 pm – 8 pm.

Does the protective packing of art, for the purpose its preservation, add to its intrinsically sculptural quality? Are the painterly representations of archived ephemera akin to the readymade materials they hang beside? Or does illusion and context construed ones understanding to mirror that of the authors? It is these lines of thought that structure the following artist’s contemplations on found materials as both displaced commodity and anecdotal signifier. Considering the “found object” as a societal residue of sorts, the artists in this exhibition aim to manipulate the viewing of banal objects through industrialized re-packaging, juxtaposition, and idiosyncratic reinterpretation.

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