EMAP x Frieze Film Seoul 2024
Presented in partnership with EMAP at Ewha Womans University and featuring 37 international artists including Ana Mendieta, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Josèfa Ntjam, Ayoung Kim and Thao Nguyen Phan
Presented in partnership with EMAP at Ewha Womans University and featuring 37 international artists including Ana Mendieta, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Josèfa Ntjam, Ayoung Kim and Thao Nguyen Phan
For the third year in a row, Frieze Film returns to Frieze Seoul 2024. This year’s programme is in partnership with Ewha Media Art Presentation (EMAP), on view from 2-6 September at Ewha Womans University and online at frieze.com.
Curated by Joowon Park and Valentine Umansky, this year’s programme is titled ‘All that Weaves the Universe: Of Quantum Entanglements’. It brings together time-based media works of 37 international artists, unfolding under 8 chapters.
Visitor Information
Dates & Times: Monday 2 – Friday 6 September, 6-10pm daily
Location: ECC (Ewha Campus Complex), Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul
Direction: via main entrance of Ewha Womans University (exit 3 from Ewha subway station)
Parking: Underground parking by ECC
Curator Statement
With the exponential rise of digital technologies, our intrinsic ties to the natural world have become increasingly mediated, distant and fragile. The space and boundaries between the human and nonhuman are being fundamentally reconfigured. In a time of absolute climate emergency, nurturing the things and beings with whom we share our ecosystems feels more pressing than ever.
All that Weaves the Universe engages with this topic through a selection of time-based media works. While these looped videos offer varying perspectives, they persistently challenge colonial structures and processes, emphasizing how the interplay between capitalism and colonialism has driven economic inequality, cultural loss, environmental harm, and exploitative dependency, profoundly affecting our societies.
In the exhibition, weaving acts as a metaphor for understanding the interconnectedness of all things and beings through space and time. An inter-species activity, weaving reminds us of the broader community we are a part of, and with which we share the capacity and thrive to make bonds. It invites mycelium and digital networks under a shared embrace.
While considering the porosity between human and nonhuman, the exhibition connects ancient and modern knowledge systems. For centuries, and despite the forced erasure of their cultures and values, indigenous elders have preserved practices that affirm the balance of all things as interconnected, all events interrelated, and all phenomena interdependent. Their apprehension aligns with current principles of quantum physics; the study of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atomic and subatomic particles. Quantum theory suggests that the universe is fundamentally interlinked and indivisible, made of matter at once continuous and discontinuous.
While reflecting on and at times embracing technology, the invited artists and their works offer bodily, technological, and spiritual insights, bridging the supposed gap that exists between modern and ancient technologies, or wisdom. In doing so, they help us navigate present and future challenges, fostering innovative coexistence with our planet's multifaceted intelligence.
Chapters & Featured Artists
CHAPTER 1 - A Question of Quantum Entanglement
Josèfa Ntjam
Simon Speiser
Tabita Rezaire
CHAPTER 2 - Longing & Belonging
Vitória Cribb
Alison Nguyen
Stephanie Comilang
Dineo Seshee Bopape
CHAPTER 3 - On time, data, and speed. Visions of postmodernity and accelerationism
Yuyan Wang
Ayoung Kim
Clemens von Wedemeyer
CHAPTER 4 - Making Kin with the Living
Shaun Gladwell
Léuli Eshrāghi
Zheng Bo
I-Lann Yee
Gabriel Abrantes
CHAPTER 5 - Of soil, stones, steel, and souls
Ana Mendieta
Sojung Jun and Jungju An
Saodat Ismailova
Laura Grisi
CHAPTER 6 - A line seeking to meet itself
ZHANG XU Zhan
Naomi Rincón Gallardo
Thao Nguyen Phan
Yin-Ju Chen
Charwei Tsai
CHAPTER 7 - Deep Time
Kimsooja
Wang Tuo
Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
Martha Atienza
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Main image: Installation view of Delivery Dancer's Sphere (2022) from the exhibition What an Artificial World (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, Korea, 2024) ⓒ National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Photography Hong Choelki.
