Exhibition Title: Piece of Us

• Exhibition Period: December 10 (Tue) – December 31 (Tue), 2024
• Venue: Dohing Art, B1, 9 Nambusunhwan-ro 325-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul (Open 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Closed on Sundays & Mondays)
• Participating Artists:
  Geum So-hyun, Kim Geu-rim, Kim So-jung, Kim Su-min, Kim Su-jin, Kim A-hae, Kim Yeon-hong, Kim Young-hyun, Kim Young-hyun, Kim Eun-joo, Kim Jae, Kim Joong-ok, Kim Ji-yoon, Kim Ji-eun, Kim Ji-hye, Kim Han-ra, Kim Han-bi, Kim Ho-yeon, Noh Han-sol, Mooa Kang, Park Bo-ori, Park Seong-ah, Park So-hyun, Park Joon-hee, Bang Hye-su, Baek Da-rae, Seo Do-i, Seo Ji-hee, Seol Hye-rin, Son Su-min, Su-yeon, Shin Young-hee, Ava, Ahn Jin-seon, Um So-wan, Young-won, Oh Yeon-jin, Oh Ji-eun, Woo Ah-young, Woo Yeon-joo, Woo Ollo, Won Na-rae, Yoon Yeon-woo, Yoon In-seon, Lee Kyung-min, Lee Na-ha, Lee Mi-ji, Lee Bom, Lee Sang-ye, Lee So-young, Lee Seung-yeon, Lee Si-ma, Lee Yong-hyun, Lee Yoo-ri, Lee Ji-gu, Lee Ji-won, Lee Ha-eun, Lim Sung-hee, Jang Young-eun, Jang Yoo-jung, Jang Han-i, Jeon Young-joo, Jung Da-jung, Jung Ah-sa-ran, Jung Won, Jung Ji-won, Jo Yeon-joo, Jo Joo-hyun, Choi Seo-hee, Choi In-yeop, Ha Da-won, Han Jung-eun, Heo Su-jung
• Opening Reception: Friday, December 10, 2024, at 6:00 PM @ Dohing Art

From December 10 to December 31, 2024, Culture & Art for You presents the year-end project exhibition Piece of Us in collaboration with Private Collection, Louise the Women, and Dohing Art. Featuring over 70 artists, from emerging talents to established names in the art scene, the exhibition introduces an array of artworks while creating opportunities for acquisition and collection.

This project exhibition stands out with several unique aspects:

1. Anonymous Artists:
   In an effort to allow viewers to engage with the artworks without bias, the exhibition will not disclose the artists’ names. Often, the identity of an artist can overly influence the way a piece is perceived. By omitting artist names, the exhibition encourages visitors to connect with the works on a more instinctive and unbiased level.
2. Uniform Artwork Size:
   All exhibited works will be approximately size 5 ho (slightly larger than A4 paper). By standardizing the dimensions, the exhibition highlights how artists of diverse backgrounds and experiences express their ideas within the same spatial constraints. The showcase will include not only paintings but also sculptures, photography, and media art.
3. Fixed Pricing for All Works:
   To create a more accessible collecting experience, all artworks will be priced equally. This ensures that visitors can focus solely on their connection with the work, making it an ideal opportunity for collectors to acquire pieces based purely on personal appreciation.

Private Collection, an online platform launched in 2023, has quickly gained recognition for selling out multiple collections of contemporary artworks. More than just a marketplace, it bridges online and offline art experiences, aiming to expand art ownership through curated exhibitions and digital content.

In this exhibition, all 70+ participating artists’ works will be accompanied by audio guides, providing deeper insights into their artistic processes. Additionally, the collaboration with Louise the Women, a collective of female artists and curators, and Dohing Art, a hub for Seoul’s young contemporary art scene, makes this event particularly meaningful. Throughout the exhibition period, a series of engaging talks and programs will be held, offering visitors an enriching experience beyond mere visual appreciation.

The organizing teams—Culture & Art for You, Louise the Women, and Dohing Art—express their hope that this exhibition will introduce new ways of engaging with art and serve as a gift-like event for collectors and art enthusiasts alike.

Supported by Kooksoondang, a Korean traditional liquor brand, the exhibition will also feature the newly rebranded Baekseju, adding an extra layer of enjoyment to the viewing experience.

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[Exhibition text by Jiwon Geum]

Mooa Kang once dreamed of a three-legged table—borne by a female waist with crossed legs, somewhere between humankind and fauna. It was feminine, sensual, and effortlessly chic all at once. Astounded by its poise and finesse, Mooa made a drawing upon waking up. Borrowing the title from this drawing, Table of Thoughts references a moment of stepping into an artist’s studio. Here, visitors are not merely viewers but are invited as active participants, collaborators, and even protagonists in an intimate setting.

Showcasing Mooa’s works across various mediums including drawing, painting, textiles, sculpture, and furniture, the exhibition invites multisensory engagement by touch. Her works blend artistic categories—take the Body Tables (2017-2024), Mooa’s signature ‘Furni-sculptures,’ which artfully amalgamate furniture and sculpture in multicolored painterly surfaces. On top of them lie silk scarves from the Camouflage Pattern series (2015). Constituted with digital replications of her hand drawings, the Mandala-like patterns transform fragmented parts of the female body from her drawings into visual language of ornamentation, disguising subversive themes of womanhood into abstraction.

In Mooa’s words, color is “a vital link, bridging nature and the human body.” She applies pigments along the natural wood grains through minimal intervention, each grain and color reflecting human individuity and diversity as an act of repair and rejuvenation. Connected through multiple hinges, their appearances are changeable, like how nature’s color turns and humans undressing one’s fleeting moods.

Utilizing dreams and visceral sketches as reservoirs for reflection, the exhibition integrates Mooa’s exploration of art, craft, space, and design, inviting visitors to reflect on their own transformative journeys.

Table of Thoughts marks Mooa’s third solo exhibition and her first in Seattle. Curated by Jiwon Geum, independent curator, in close dialogue with the artist.

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Jiwon Geum (b. 1992, Seoul) is an independent curator, writer, and researcher based in New York. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, where she curated Right to Mother (2023). During her time at CCS Bard, she was a Curatorial Fellow at The Drawing Center (2022) and contributed to developing the show Xiyadie: Queer Cut Utopias (2023). Previously, she contributed to exhibitions at YveYANG Gallery (2023-24), ARKO Art Center (2020), and the Total Museum of Contemporary Art (2019) in Seoul, South Korea. She earned her bachelor’s in Painting and Art History at Ewha Womans University and is currently co-directing a curatorial group called Stealing fictions with Yoojin Jang and Junyoung Lee.