Course Reflections: Through the course of study, my understanding of the concept of curation has undergone a significant transformation. Initially, when I first encountered curation, I merely thought it was about setting a theme, selecting artists and works, and presenting… Continue Reading →
Exhibition Viewing—Ilana Halperin: What is Us and What is Earth 📍Gallery: Fruitmarket This exhibition displays sculptures, paintings, and photographs by Glasgow-based artist Ilana Halperin. On her 30th birthday, Halperin realized she was born in the same year as a volcano… Continue Reading →
Reflexions and Insights from the Course By studying the concept of “Access-centered Practice” (Fazeli and MacBride, 2025) through course content and reading materials, as Fazeli and MacBride suggest, it is not merely about considering the so-called normal audience. Access is… Continue Reading →
Stage Summary and Reflections on This Week’s Curatorial Work The key focus of this week’s collective exhibition planning was centered around deepening the content of the group exhibition, determining the artworks to be exhibited, conducting on-site inspections of the exhibition… Continue Reading →
🎯 Group Curatorial Brainstorming Session Exhibition Duration: One Week Curatorial Focus: Vitality / Lightness / Nature / Renewal / Slowness / Symbiosis Treating breath and air as shared resources and relationships, air flows through the space, connecting states between humans… Continue Reading →
🧶 Appreciation of Ema Shin’s Artworks Ema Shin grew up in a traditional Korean family. Her creation is inspired by gender bias in family culture and the “absence” of records of female family members. Ema Shin’s grandfather has always kept… Continue Reading →
🎯Curatorial Focus: My curatorial focus is on the anxiety of women presented in contemporary photography. From a feminist perspective, I explore the predicaments that contemporary women face under the multiple pressures of social structure and cultural expectations. These pressures often… Continue Reading →
📷 Insights Gained from Cindy Sherman’s Photographic Works When collecting information on female-themed exhibitions and related artists, I came across Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” series. “I was wrestling with some sort of turmoil of my own about understanding women.The… Continue Reading →
Exhibition Viewing—CATALYST: Art as Activism 📍Gallery: Summer Hall The works mainly present relevant social, political, and ecological issues to the audience through related artworks and spatial designs, rather than merely expressing emotions. Summer Hall places works by different artists on… Continue Reading →
Exhibition Viewing: The Children Are Now 📍Gallery: Talbot Rice Gallery This is an exhibition about “childism”, calling on people to seek ways to grant children rights and to reconsider the role of children in shaping our world. Link:The Children are… Continue Reading →
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