IBA Stage: 14th Gwangju Biennale – Sooyoung Leam

Sooyoung Leam, Assistant Curator 14th Gwangju Biennale. Image courtesy Gwangju Biennale Foundation

IBA Stage: 14th Gwangju Biennale
May 31th, 2023 (Wednesday)
8pm (Gwangju/GMT+9)

We are delighted to introduce Sooyoung Leam, Assistant Curator of “soft and weak like water”, who will present the 14th Gwangju Biennale inspired from a chapter of Dao De Jing, a fundamental Daoist text. The Biennale  proposes to imagine our shared planet as a site of resistance, coexistence, solidarity and care by thinking through the transformative and restorative potential of water as a metaphor, a force, and a method.

We look forward to discussing with Sooyoung Leam about the process behind this exhibition and how it unfolds in the venues of the Gwangju Biennale.

Sooyoung Leam is an independent curator and art historian based in Seoul, Korea. Recently a co-curator of MaytoDay, part of Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s May 18 special exhibition project, she was also assistant curator at Shanghai Project and curated exhibitions at such venues as ASEAN Culture House. She completed her PhD on “Lee Seung-taek: The Making and Unmaking of Sculpture in Contemporary Korean Art” at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her written work has been published in numerous academic journals and edited volumes, including Sculpture Journal, Journal of History of Modern Art, and Transformative Jars. Sooyoung Leam currently teaches at Seoul National University.

As always IBA Stage events are meant as a moment to hear about a project through its makers and have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session at the end of the presentation.

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