Busan Biennale
The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.
The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.
This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens. The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.
Camille HENROT
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관리자 2020-09-05 13:11
Born 1978 in Paris, France
Lives in Paris
Camille HENROT, October 2015 Horoscope (detail), 2015, Five different sets of resin cigarette figures, set of resin weightlifter figures, set of resin Buddha figures, set of found object and resin vodka bottle figures, set of resin sad figures, set of found objects and resin pill bottles and pills, set of resin moon figures, ardiuno motor, LED strobe lights, splitter connecting LED and motor, control switch, 96.5×223.5×254cm
Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
“You are the last soft being in the machine,” said Electricity to the Human, in the short essay by Amalie SMITH, Electricity Speaks. Camille HENROT’s practice explores this softness in the system we live in, which is ordered, repetitive, homogeneous, and even destructive, amid a global pandemic and climate change crisis. In order to reflect specifically how progress defines itself within the frame of ambitions, the artist creates large-scale installations using different media. The selection of drawings the artist produced at her home during the lockdown and chose for the Biennial echo the moment we are in: there is no safe space anymore, contamination is everywhere, and bodies have never been more vulnerable. We don’t know if the relationship between a mother and a baby is based on protection, sharing of nutrients, or flesh-eating custom.