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 Asneria (Donkey)
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2010
Stuffed donkey and books
Various dimensions
Asneria (Donkey)
Pilar Albarracín builds performances, videos, installations and photographs. The folkloristic cliche in Albarracín’s work reveals her identity as Spanish artist and feminist via themes of globalism and localism.
In Albarracin’s installation Anseria, a dressed donkey is reading a book while standing on a pile of books, which suggests the grave. In the surreal and uncanny of this work, we see the alter ego as doppleganger, returned phantom as a dressed animal. Anseria registers the anxiety of existence, and the desire for eternity. The pile of the books evokes the history of humananity, and the donkey reading the book looks like a scene from a fable, which can be read as a cultural anthological history of the human.