Laida Lertxundi














Facing the Movement
Laida Lertxundi, Sejin Kim, Minha Park, Cheol Min Im, Sojung Jun, Hyekyung Ham and Keira Greene
ARKO Art Center
Seoul, Korea
January 6th-February 6th, 2022

Curator: Sera Jung
Coordinator: Seonghyeon Cho
Organized by THE STREAM
in collaboration with LUX


In our time of pandemic, we are living through adversities while imagining what will come post the pandemic. Amidst the situation, "mobility" occurs in a variety of modes. The COVID-19 crisis has suspended the interconnected economic and social systems around the globe, leading to a reckoning about the fragility of such systems. Life is always moving, and so is art. Mobility in different scales expands and grows not only in society but also in the artistic landscape while integrating with each other at the same time. On the other hand, it also relies on unequal forms of mobility. Sometimes, it induces disorientation and calls for reorientation in a new direction.

The fluidity of moving also exists within a dynamic relationship, which is only possible thanks to the immobility of stopping and suspension. In the state where movement ceases, we realize once again that new and extensive says in our everyday life had been existed within mobility. This means that the chances for our life can also be reduced if it was not for mobility. Currently, mobility leads us to face the paradoxical moment where a new mobility paradigm is needed for physical movement and accelerated circulation. The real-time movement of information in the virtual world can compress the world into zero-dimensional dots. Different from the past, the experiences of viewers off and online also intersect according to mobility. As multinational networks are strengthening at this very moment, mobility is in the process of reconceptualization thanks to various contributions made by cultural studies and investigations on gender, migration, and settlement among others. Mobility can be understood as a way of relating to the world and understanding ourselves in the present within that world. It operates the same way as art operates in our life.



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