The Fruit is Not There to be Eaten
Exhibition view of Art Accent: The Fruit is Not There to be Eaten
PC: Art Busan 2024
ART ACCENT is designed to elevate the creative drive of emerging artists and facilitate broader discussions of their work. Since its inception in 2012, it has showcased over 100 artists across a total of 11 editions to introduce their work to a wider range of audiences. This year, in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, ART ACCENT is advancing and diversifying contemporary art, expanding beyond local emerging artists, and highlighting art on a global scale. Featuring an array of works from five artists Haeun Lee, and Wonkyo Choi based in Busan, and Billy Crosby, Danny Leyland, and Margaret Liang in London, the programme has a promising trajectory to facilitate enriching encounters and experiences.
All the artwork presented under the theme of The Fruit is Not There to be Eaten. It threads throughout the painting, sculpture, and installation processes, even though each work maintains a unique form. All the works, however, are focused on transcending phenomena. The "Fruit" also implicates forbidden metaphors from historical religious contexts, urging people to move beyond the “epoché” of suspended judgment and live within “Embodied Knowledge”. This Exhibition interrogates sites of knowledge production— where it is generated, enacted, and distorted. It calls the viewer to reevaluate dichotomous hegemonies inherent within traditional frameworks.
The 5 participants repurpose knowledge defined by ancient civilizations and digitized advancements and attempt to transcend the present historical and geographic moment. Haeun Lee records a series of processes that absorb sensory visual shocks from particular sites, retracing them as unfamiliar and overlapping landscapes; Billy Crosby highlights thematic absorption and dispersion of subjects on screen while recognizing the influence of observing contemporary networks. Danny Leyland evokes visual perspectives of the past, clashing the senses and entangling the viewer- in the aperture between the past and the present; Wonkyo Choi flips the materialistic sense of photography with images projected in sync with the audience. Finally, Weiyi (Margaret) Liang challenges stereotypes of Asian women through decontextualization using her own body as a medium. Through this exhibition, we hope that you will be able to collectively experience the diverse and interesting perspectives of emerging artists and discover the trends and possibilities of the art of their generation.
Art Busan 2024_CONVERSATIONS (link)
