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Once Upon A Time: An Exhibition By and For MCAD Students

Exhibition: Saturday, April 15–Wednesday, May 17 MCAD Library Gallery

Exploring New and Vintage Folk and Fairy Tale Books Curated by students in AH2105 (Print Culture, Art, and Communication in the Age of Mass Reproduction); HU3328 (Folk and Fairy Tales); and HU3919 (Young Adult Literature).

This exhibition is funded by the MCAD Library, the Liberal Arts Department, and the M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History from the Rare Book School, Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Slow-stitched Navigation

A Library Gallery exhibition by Malini Basu

We highly recommend making your way to see Malini Basu's exhibition: Slow-stitched Navigation, in the Library Gallery.

Exhibition: Tuesday, February 14–Monday, March 6 Library Gallery @mcad

Introduction to the installation by Malini Basu:

I have never been good at directions—short walks that should be second nature to me could turn into hour-long meanders. When I moved from my home in India to the Twin Cities, I embraced the GPS system on my phone wholeheartedly, enjoying the ease with which I was able to navigate the public transit systems and the city at large. I followed the guiding blue line unquestioningly, trusting that I was being fed the most efficient path. Unsurprisingly, my mindless navigation did not assuage the disconnect I felt towards the cityscape I walked in and land I lived on. In this body of work, I lean into slower modes of traversing the city. I focus on building an observational practice for myself, using objects found on the sidewalks as cues to look up and take note of my surroundings. I gradually build out my own mental map by tying the object to the surrounding intersection, the plants in season around me, the smells, the cracks in the sidewalks, my personal memories in that area. This practice led to tactile explorations of how I can connect my body to my movements through a place. While this project began as a response to navigating Minnesota, I was able to continue this mindful observation while in India this past winter. The works in this show thus reflect walks in both Minneapolis as well as Kolkata.

Recommended library books:

Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys, 1967-2017, by Rachel Adams, Rebecca Solnit, Lori Waxman, and Jane McFadden

The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, by Katharine A Harmon and Gayle Clemans

Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers, by Karen O’Rourke

Walking Art Practice: Reflections on Socially Engaged Paths, by Ernesto Pujol

The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats

Fray: Art and Textile Politics, by Julia Bryan-Wilson 

Drawing from Memory, by Allen Say (on order)

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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! You should make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange.

Exhibition: Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! Please make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange. 

Exhibition:  Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Holding Space

A Library Gallery exhibition by Alexis Schramel

New exhibition in the Library Gallery! Please make a detour to the MCAD Library to see Alexis Schramel's installation: Holding Space.

Exhibition: Tuesday, November 29–Friday, December 16, 2022 MCAD Library Gallery

Poetry Reading: Tuesday, December 6 MCAD Library Gallery 6:00 p.m.

Introduction to the installation by Alexis Schramel: Holding Space is a site-specific installation, that shifts and changes with each iteration. The catalyst for this installation was initiated in response to my need for human connection through being physically, mentally, and emotionally there for other humans and non-humans. Reflecting on the patterns of my life, I associate autumn with pain, loss, decay, displacement, and transition. This installation is a way of sitting and moving with these emotions. I imagine how this installation solidifies and complicates how I understand the relationships and spaces I inhabit now and in the future. I believe by holding space for each other we can find a tender and loving space which we all carry. Together.

Artist statement: Alexis Schramel is a queer artist practicing across disciplines for exploration within social practice, bio-wilderness, collaboration, and installation. She grew up rooted in rural farming communities of the Driftless Area along the Mississippi River. Growing up in this region, she explores the whimsy and brutality of nature during her childhood. She attempts to make sense of the unspoken and unseen materialization of the senses related to site-specific installations and human experience. Her work experiments with the thresholds of sensory perception- looking and seeing, hearing and listening, giving attention and awareness to what lies in between. 

Recommended library books:

The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard and M. Jolas

Uta Barth: to Draw with Light, by Uta Barth

The Art of Light + Space, by Jan Butterfield

Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, by Amy Chaloupka, Leslie Umberger, and Anne Davis Basting

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence, by Brian O’Doherty, Christo, Jeanne-Claude, G. Wayne Clough, Edwin C. Anderson, Elizabeth Broun, and George Gurney

Whole Cloth, by Mildred Constantine and Laurel Reuter

Art Therapy for Children: Activities for Individuals and Small Groups, by Jodi Dorson

Ann Hamilton: Habitus, by Ann Hamilton, Patricia C. Phillips, Susan Lubowsky Talbott, Natalie Shapero, and Susan Stewart

Agnes Martin: the Distillation of Color, by Agnes Martin, Durga Chew-Bose, Olivia Laing, and Bruce Hainley

Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art, by Jenelle Porter, Louisa Elderton, Rebecca Morrell, and Catalina Imizcoz

Do Ho Suh: Drawings, by Do-Ho Suh, Rochelle Steiner, Clara Kim, and Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Glass, by Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Laura Addison, Ivy Bridgewater, Tina Oldknow, Diana Gaston, and Jean Norelli

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Interstice A Library Gallery exhibition by Abe Shriner and emmy e smith

Exhibition: On view through Sunday, November 13, 2022 MCAD Library Gallery

Enjoy spiritual nourishment at the supple metaphorical mammæ of this library gallery show. Knowledge is the seed that launched a thousand plants. Wait, that idiomatic expression got screwed up. What does a fax from god look like? Blonde Mary, quite contrary. Accidentally hit my godhead on the cupboard door. Monstrance got knocked over but the candles still burned brightly. Paschal mystery becomes paschal we’ve-figured-out-who-the-killer-is becomes wait, there’s a surprise twist and that big bird was the Holy Ghost all along.

Recommended library books:

Joan Mitchell (1988) by Judith E. Bernstock (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)

The Cult of the Virgin: Offerings, Ornaments and Festivals (2000) by Marie-France Boyer

Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976) by Marina Warner

Saints in Art (2003) by Rosa Giorgi and Stefano Zuffi

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) by Marshall McLuhan

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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The Library is accepting Library Gallery exhibition submissions for the Spring 2023 semester.

The Library Gallery is a Library staff-run exhibition space available to students at MCAD.

In the form below, you will find the submission process for exhibiting in the Library Gallery. Please apply! The deadline is Monday, November 28, 2022. Please contact the Library ([email protected]) with any questions.

Click here to fill out the submission form: Library Gallery @MCAD - Call for Art (for Spring 2023).

The form is also found on the library’s web page, the school’s News and Events (intranet page), and in the What’s Up at MCAD (email newsletter).

Best of luck, The Library

Poster by Avery Luthardt | Instagram and YouTube: @averyluthardt

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Until the day comes, when the last bubble pops … many life’s memories remain A Library Gallery exhibition by Joy Li (Yuanrong Li)

Exhibition: Sunday, September 25–Sunday, October 16 Library Gallery @MCAD

The bubbles represent the permanence of fond memories. No matter if time may try to burst them, they will remain as sturdy as life’s many memories.

Reading List:

Uta Barth : to Draw with Light, by Uta Barth

Lynda Benglis, by Franck Gautherot, Caroline Hancock, Seung-Duk Kim, and Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis : Water Sources, by Lynda Benglis

Dale Chihuly : Installations, 1964-1992, by Dale Chihuly and Patterson Sims

Chihuly, by Donald B. Kuspit

Lucio Fontana, by Lucio Fontana and Sarah Whitfield

Georgia O’Keeffe : Watercolors 1916-1918, by Georgia O'Keeffe and Amy von Lintel

Gabriel Orozco : Asterisms, by Gabriel Orozco

Tomás Saraceno : 14 Billions (working Title), by Tomás Saraceno and Sara Arrhenius

Sarah Sze, by Sarah Sze and Okwui Enwezor

Steve Tobin’s Natural History, by Donald B. Kuspit, Steve Tobin, and George Erml

James Turrell : a Retrospective, by Michael Govan, Christine Y. Kim, Alison de Lima Greene, Edwin C. Krupp, Florian Holzherr, and James Turrell

Extraordinary Ideas - Realized, by James Turrell

Fragile Fortress : the Art of Dan Webb, by Dan Webb and Stefano Catalani, Jenni Sorkin, and Nora Atkinson

Peter Zimmermann, by Peter Zimmermann and Marietta Franke

Another World : Colors, Textures and Patterns of the Deep, by Dos Winkel and Kalli De Meyer

Thin Skin : the Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures, by Barbara Clausen and Carin Kuoni

Plastic Matter, by Heather M. Davis

Lust for Light, by Hannah Stouffer and Katie Roseff

Biophilia, by Christopher Marley

The Color of Nature, by Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, and William Neill

Vitamin 3-D : New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, by Phaidon

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Through the Flock of Clouds A Library Gallery exhibition by Ngan Huynh

Exhibition: Tuesday, August 23–Monday, September 19 Library Gallery @MCAD

An illustration exhibition for the whimsical wanderlusts. Join us in this summer dream of tales and illusions where characters face their stories, and challengers dare for impossibles.

Reading List: 

Peter Pan, by J.M Barrie

The outlandish adventures of Orpheus in the underworld, by Paul Newham

The original folk and fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm : the complete first edition, by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

Under the spell of Orpheus : the persistence of a myth in twentieth-century, by Judith Bernstock

The dreamer, by Il Sung Na

My first day, by Huynh Kim Lien Quang

The magic fish, by Trung Le Nguyen

Modern mythology : Poems about gods, mortals, and monsters, by Nadia McGhee

Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience, by Brené Brown

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Hot chocolate and hot cider, in the library, during the last week, Monday–Thursday (5/2–5/5)!

END OF THE SEMESTER HOURS: 4/25–5/9: Monday–Thursday: 8:30 a.m.–midnight Friday: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Saturday: noon–5:00 p.m. Sunday: noon–10:00 p.m.

Tuesday (5/10): 8:30 a.m.–10:00 p.m.

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We’re holding a Call For Art, student competition! Submit your best work and exhibition ideas through April 25th. Exhibiting students will be offered $100.00 stipend. MCAD students fill out a submission here: Library Gallery @MCAD - Call for Art (Fall 2022) 

The form can also be found at the library's web page, the school's News and Events (intranet page), and in the What's Up at MCAD (email newsletter). For more information, contact [email protected]. Poster illustrated by: Yimin Pi (@usagipi)

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I'll meet u there A Library Gallery exhibition by Anda Tanaka and Genie Hien Tran

Exhibition: Saturday, February 12–Monday, March 25 Library Gallery

In their first collaborative exhibition, I’ll meet u there, Genie Hien Tran and Anda Tanaka explore the rich, fun, beautiful, messy, complicated relationship that exists between artist-friends. Genie and Anda met through a shared interest in papermaking during the fall of 2021 and have since grown as both collaborators and friends. This exhibition includes works created through a variety of collaborative methods. In some, the artists worked simultaneously on the same surface. In others, a shared set of parameters set the course for independent work. Given the mixed-media practices of both artists, the featured work is materially complex, including techniques such as papermaking, ink making, drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Thus, I’ll meet u there is both documentation and commemoration of the connection between Genie, Anda, and the materials they use to communicate.

Reading List:

Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer, by Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

Interaction of Color, by Josef Albers

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, by Roland Barthes

Bluets, by Maggie Nelson

The Parameters of Our Cage, by Chris Fausto Cabrera and Alec Soth

The Complete Book of Papermaking, by Josep Asunción

Make Ink: a Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking, by Jason Logan

Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing

*Due to COVID-19 campus access will be limited. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Between the Sheets: A Bound Journey

A Library Gallery exhibition by Jessica Tevik

We would like to welcome students, faculty, staff, and alumni to see the current exhibition in the Library Gallery, Jessica Tevik's Between the Sheets: A Bound Journey.

Exhibition: On display through Tuesday, February 8 Library Gallery Introduction to the exhibition by Jessica Tevik: Each of the works present was naturally birthed from experiences and photographs gleaned from many days of my life spent communing with nature, studying ecology, meditation, regenerative farming/living practices, and exploring our understanding of matter through physics, art, and self-observation. Since my discovery of the infinite possibilities present in the creation of artists’ books, I became endlessly inspired to transform these things into that form. It resonates as the perfect container/expression for my purpose in creating works of art and I don’t think I could ever become weary of it. Many of the works were created for class projects at MCAD, ever-challenging and expanding my love for and skillset for the craft. Reading List:

Singin’ and swingin’ and gettin’ merry like Christmas / by Angelou, Maya

Collected poems, 1957-1982 / by Berry, Wendell

Larousse encyclopedia of the earth / by Bertin, Léon

The last night of the earth poems / by Bukowski, Charles

The Cover & text book / by Cover & Text Paper Manufacturers (American Paper Institute)

Chris Drury : found moments in time and space / by Drury, Chris

Kahlil Gibran, a self-portrait / by Gibran, Kahlil

Enclosure / by Goldsworthy, Andy

Time / by Goldsworthy, Andy

Andy Goldsworthy : a collaboration with nature / by Goldsworthy, Andy

The elegant universe : superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory / by Greene, B. (Brian)

Shaman, the wounded healer / by Halifax, Joan

Queer voices : poetry, prose, and pride / edited by Jenkins, Andrea, John Medeiros, and Lisa Marie Brimmer

Spirit capture : photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian / by Johnson, Tim

The undiscovered self / by Jung, C. G.

The collected works of C. G. Jung / by Jung, C. G.

The clothing of books / by Lahiri, Jhumpa

Tao te ching : the book of the way and its virtue / by Laozi

The art & history of books / by Levarie, Norma

Art in book form / by Lin, Shijian

Indigena : contemporary native perspectives / by Martin, Lee-Ann., and Gerald McMaster

The owl : a photographic essay / by Miyazaki, Manabu

Touching : the human significance of the skin / by Montagu, Ashley

The Dhammapada / by Nārada, Thera

The nature of light : an historical survey / by Ronchi, Vasco

The splendor of iridescence; structural colors in the animal world / by Simon, Hilda

The courtship of birds / by Simon, Hilda

Birds of field and forest / by Štěpánek, Otakar

500 handmade books : inspiring interpretations of a timeless form / by Tourtillott, Suzanne J. E.

The dancing wu li masters : an overview of the new physics / by Zukav, Gary

*Due to COVID-19 campus access will be limited. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Invisible Obstacles

A Library Gallery exhibition by May Ling Kopecky

Exhibition: Saturday, November 13–Friday, December 10 Library Gallery

Introduction to the exhibition by May Ling Kopecky: The Americans with Disabilities Act defines disability as a “physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.” When I was first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of fifteen, I hesitated to call it a disability. Symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, heat intolerance, double vision, migraines, and muscle weakness can’t be observed by others, and therefore often aren’t acknowledged. Many people told me I “looked fine” or was too young to be sick, which led to impostor syndrome and difficulties with speaking up for myself.

Invisible Obstacles explores my experiences with MS symptoms, as well as the MRI scans that act as “proof” of my chronic illness. Through this exhibition, I hope to prompt others to consider just how much can go unseen when looking at another person, as well as encourage people with invisible illnesses to advocate for themselves.

Reading List:

Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century, edited by Alice Wong

Disability and art history, edited by Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie

Points of contact : disability, art, and culture, edited by Susan Crutchfield and Marcy Epstein

Studying disability arts and culture : an introduction, by Petra Kuppers

Feminist, queer, crip, by Alison Kafer

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Are you an MCAD student?  Would you like to show your work in the Library Gallery? Do you have an idea for a gallery show?

If you answered yes to these questions, please fill out this application: Library Gallery @MCAD - Call for Art (Spring 2022).

The deadline is Monday, November 29.

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WAYFINDING

A Library Gallery exhibition by Dan McAvey 

Exhibition: On display through Tuesday, November 9

Introduction to the exhibition by Dan McAvey:  I was a sailor, once. 2600 miles at sea. Nautical miles, to be precise. I’ve climbed the foremast, the yardarm. Ridden the widowmaker. I’ve navigated by the stars. And the lighthouses.

Some lighthouses warn of danger. Some just tell you where you’re at. After seeing nothing but water for weeks, a light flashing every ten seconds says you’ll set foot in Bermuda by morning.

Lighthouses make a connection; let you know there are humans out there. Humans that will guide your way. 

Along the Mississippi River, you’ll find beacons in unusual places. At the tops of silos and grain elevators are red lights that tell travelers Turn to starboard. Now. But why is a grain elevator a lighthouse? Why is a lighthouse a flour mill?

The fog of this past year has made finding our way a particular challenge. In the confines of quarantine, it is hard to know when we’ll set foot on land again. Through these paintings, I am exploring the unusual places we can find guidance and connection. In a cold, monochromatic image, a red dot can offer connection.

The two most recent paintings, however—the largest of the set—don’t offer such guideposts. In these works, I’m exploring the space between isolation and connection. And the subtle discontent that’s lurking there.

Reading List:

Lost Twin Cities, by Larry Millett

The vital gesture, Franz Kline : Cincinnati Art Museum, by Harry F. Gaugh, and Franz Kline

Milton Avery : the late paintings, by Robert Carleton Hobbs, and Milton Avery

Mark Twain's Mississippi; a pictorial history of America's greatest river, by Tom H. Watkins, and Mark Twain

The river we have wrought : A history of the upper Mississippi, by John O. Anfinson

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As Needed: Long, Slow, Grounding States of Wellness

A Library Gallery exhibition by Bo Young An

Exhibition: Tuesday, September 21–Tuesday, October 12 Library Gallery

As Needed: long, slow, grounding states of wellness is an exhibition that explores the spiritual practices of healing and states of wellness. By adopting a process of talisman (부적 Bujeok) making by Korean spiritual healers, 60 talismans were made over a span of 6 months. The talismans feature Korean symbols of good fortune, longevity, and overall well being.

The process of making the talismans included facing the east, which symbolizes the heavens, washing the hands of impurities and making a prayer before starting the painting of each talisman. When negative thoughts or energy entered while painting, the talisman would be burned. Using the smoke as a vessel to the spirit world, the negative energy is sent back. The envelopes that are part of the grid take the place of the talismans sent to loved ones.

It was a pleasure to burn is a video that accompanies the grid of talismans and is the recording of the burning of the talismans. The audio is of the soothing waves of the East Sea (DongHae 동해) captured over the summer of 2021 on the beaches of Sokcho (속초), Korea.

The elements of earth, fire, water, and air in this exhibition allows a space to introspectively experience healing energy and spiritual wellness.

Reading List:

Documents of Contemporary Art: Health / edited by Rodríguez Muñoz, Bárbara

Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion / by Cohen, Michael H.

Korean Shamanistic Rituals / by Lee, Jung Y.

Health and Disease in Buddhist Minds / by Mahanarongchai, Sumalee

The Healer's Art / by Cassell, Eric J.

Spirituality and Art Therapy Living the Connection / by Farrelly-Hansen, Mimi

More about Bo Young An:

Website: www.boankstudio.com Instagram: @boan.k + @boillustrates

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