Flowing Refuses to Stop
Yeosu International Art Festival 2021, South Korea
3 September 2021 – 3 October 2021

Asia has suffered from modernization as a colony due to imperialist hegemony, and the process of modernization was turbulent like a rapid current. In this vortex, we overlooked ourselves and never really looked into ourselves. In the midst of this, Asian contemporary art has been changing and growing while drawing a different trajectory, depending on Western modernist thinking. Asian Contemporary Art has now become a powerful force, and there are already numerous styles of works.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 is an exhibition includes artistic remarks for a better world by uncovering, confessing, and healing the historical wounds that we had to endure in the modern and contemporary process of Asia. It melts away the dynamism and value of contemporary Asian art that transcends the large, vertical discourse centered on the West. This is a special exhibition that started from the realization that ‘now we have a strong power, and we are demonstrating a strong power’. It is intended to take a hopeful step toward a better world with the power of Asian contemporary art, which erupts in various ways while acknowledging each person’s situation.

After the end of modernism, unilateral follow-up to the mechanism of Western art is no longer a consideration. For now, we suggest that we focus on ‘self-definition’, revealing ourselves with confidence, not Asia as defined by others or as others.

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