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.
2022 Laure Prouvost
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Four For See Beauties, 2022, HD color video, stereo sound, 15min. 14sec. Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma / The Finnish National Gallery and La Casa Encendida Madrid. Supported by Hanaholmen and Institut français Finland.
From the Depth of Our Heart To the Depth of The Sea, 2022, Mixed media, Dimension variable. New glass sculptures (6 pieces) produced by Hun-chul Kim, Hyung-jin Park, Hayne Park.
Passing through a tunnel of palm trees, visitors arrive in a red room where a video is playing. In the video, three women and a baby, along with fish and other marine creatures, experience the contrast between the chilled sea in autumn and the intense heat of a sauna. The space itself is warmed to the temperature of a human body, evincing a mother’s womb. Visitors are thus invited to return to the origins of human life, a pre-linguistic time of astonishing metamorphosis, when touch and sound are primary. How would it feel to be a new born again? Or to swim in the sea like a fish? Reminding us of our watery origins, a slender-tailed sperm cell evolves into a fish-like embryo, and finally into a human infant. Prouvost takes us on an unforgettable journey backwards through human evolution, exploring the environment of water, the starting point of all living things, including humans.
b. 1978, Croix, France
Lives in Brussels, Belgium
Posing questions about existence and identity, Laure Prouvost invites viewers into a fluid world of exchange, affiliation, escape, (mis)translation, senses, and connections, where narratives of reality and imagination blend together. Repeated motifs in her work include her (fictional) grandfather, who disappeared while digging a cave between England and Africa for the sake of conceptual art; her grandmother, whose presence is shown by the ceramics and textiles that appear in Prouvost’s work; and octopuses, which use their arms both to move and to sense. In the process, the artist merges the boundaries of reality and fiction into something more ambiguous as she comments on gender, capitalism, and the environment. Her major solo exhibitions include Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds (Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2021) and Deep See Blue Surrounding You, which represented the French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Major group exhibitions include Beaufort 21 (De Panne, 2021) and the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020).