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.
2014 Accumulation-Searching for Destination
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2014
Vintage suitcases, red rope, red net
Various dimensions
Courtesy of Artist, Galerie Daniel Templon, Kenji Taki Gallery
Accumulation-Searching for Destination
In Chiharu Shiota’s installation work, the trauma of deprivation and separation(as the deportation and exile of diaspora nomadic subject) is manifested as synesthesia through the accumulation and discontinuity of the fragments broken off from the context of a function called daily objects such as the bed, door, travel bag,
etc.
The artist’s hybrid cultural experience is also revealed in the work submitted at this Biennale. The work Accumulation-Searching for
Destination(2014) expresses the site specific art that nearly 200 travel bags as the metaphorical body hung in the air float. It metaphorically expresses today’s important issues such as diaspora, nomadic subject’s placeless, unstability by wandering, and future uncertainty. Thus, she shows the work type that the artist herself raises a question as the present progressive form, like the existence as the metaphor of fluidity and amorphousness. It metaphorically expresses the formation process of subject through the meeting with the others that both the experience of Western culture via her migration and the memory of her homeland alternate like fragmentally overlapped layers.