SEOGWIPO, Jeju Island — Mistrust, jealousy and countless wishes drive us to combat and wound one another. Wars happen one after one other throughout the globe, claiming the lives of harmless civilians. We regularly overlook how fragile and small human beings are within the huge universe.
“We, Such Fragile Beings” on the Podo Museum on Jeju Island started with that thought.
Bringing collectively 13 artists from world wide, the exhibition gives consolation and compassion to guests who’re grieving, whether or not straight or not directly.
“Whereas getting ready for this exhibition, I mirrored on how we regularly get caught up within the struggles and conflicts of on a regular basis life. If we will increase the ‘frequent denominator,’ whether or not by means of faith, music or any expertise that transcends our quick considerations, we will see these every day challenges from a much wider perspective,” stated Chloe Kim, govt director of Podo Museum, Friday on the museum.
Seemingly a curtain with a picture of numerous stars and planets within the Milky Approach, the set up “Drawings on Newspaper” by Japanese artist Sumi Kanazawa consists of newspapers with densely drawn strains utilizing tender, darkish 10B pencils. Occasions from completely different instances and dates are seen the place the pencil has omitted. Standing earlier than the work, which feels meditative, one could notice simply what number of issues are concurrently going on this huge universe.
Lebanese artist Annabel Daou’s scroll-like work unfurls from the gallery wall and spills out onto the ground, starting with the phrase from the American Declaration of Independence from which it takes its title, “When within the Course of Human Occasions.” Not like the declaration’s pressing name to motion, the lots of of sentences written in white correction fluid on black microfiber by unusual folks proceed with phrases emphasizing wants, hopes and wishes “to breathe deeply,” “to achieve out” and “to carry again tears.”
“It was in 2019 that I started engaged on it at a time when there have been protests all internationally. I had this type of sense that this was the second, a pivotal second.
“I began asking folks to finish the sentence, and what was actually attention-grabbing to me is that it was the sense of pleasure — the opportunity of rewriting or adapting the type of this US doc that was written by rich white males and to place it within the voice of individuals internationally,” the New York-based artist stated.
A white hallway of the museum is stuffed flooring to ceiling with 560 white clocks, the sound of their ticking like falling rain. Every clock has a reputation, a job and a rustic. The set up by Korean artist Lee Wan reveals every clock is ticking at a unique pace.
“There’s a system for calculating the pace of the clocks. By getting into knowledge from the folks I interviewed, resembling their earnings, the price of dwelling of their nation and the way a lot they pay for a single meal, I used to be capable of decide the tempo of time for every individual.
“Nevertheless, this tempo doesn’t signify an everlasting pace. The pace of time for everybody represented within the clocks will proceed to movement because it does at this very second,” he stated.
Exterior the museum is an set up by Robert Montgomery the place light-emitting diode bulbs create the sentence: “Love is the revolutionary vitality that annihilates the shadows and collapses this distance between us.”
The exhibition runs to Aug. 8, 2026 on the museum owned by SK Group.
