The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else

Witte de With, Rotterdam

22 May — 17 August 2014

Opening: Thursday 22 May 2014, 5 — 8 pm
4 pm: Press preview & meet the artists
5.30 pm: Welcome  by Defne Ayas, Director Witte de With, followed by an introduction by curators Heman Chong and Samuel Saelemakers
6.30 pm: Live performance of Allora & Calzadilla’s Revolving Door (Rotterdam), 2011/2014, choreography by Mor Shani.

The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else is a group exhibition with works by more than forty artists. Playing with variation and repetition, resemblance and difference, synchronicities and slippages, this exhibition marks the end of Moderation(s), a long-term program (August 2012 – August 2014) initiated by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and Spring Workshop in Hong Kong.

Artists: A Constructed World, Nadim Abbas, Allora & Calzadilla, Ang Song Ming, Ivan Argote, Bik Van der Pol, Pierre Bismuth, John Cage, Chen Zhen, Chu Yun, Ceal Floyer, Aurélien Froment, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Minja Gu, Sharon Hayes, Ho Rui An, Ho Sin Tung, Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat, On Kawara, Patrick Killoran, Kwan Sheung Chi, Nicolás Lamas, Lee Kit, Michael Lee, Lucas Lenglet, Gabriel Lester, Marysia Lewandowska, Charles Lim, Katarina Löfström, MAP Office, Anthony Marcellini, Ahmet Ögüt & Cevdet Erek, João Vasco Paiva, Patricia Reed, Willem de Rooij, Mor Shani, Praneet Soi, Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi, Koki Tanaka, Narcisse Tordoir, Freek Wambacq, Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong, Magdalen Wong, Adrian Wong, Haegue Yang, Trevor Yeung, Johan Zetterquist      

Curated by Heman Chong (artist and writer, Singapore) and Samuel Saelemakers (Associate Curator, Witte de With)

But if everything is potentially everything else, complained the translator, what am I doing here? 
From “Afterword: The Death Of The Translator” by George Szirtes

http://www.wdw.nl/event/the-part-in-the-story/

Minja Gu (b. 1977, Korea) lives and works in Seoul. Her works appear frail and intimate, and almost indistinguishable from everyday life. Gu is predominately interested in what society uses and then discards. She recycles back into presence and with grace, wit and poetry the many supposedly valueless remnants of daily consumerism, such as leftover coffee cups or plastic bags.
Minja Gu’s solo exhibitions have been Identical Times, Croft Gallery, Seoul, Korea, (2009) and Atlantic-Pacific co., Moore Street Market, New York, NY, USA (2011). She has also participated with her work in the group exhibitions Trading Futures, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan (2012); Doing, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2012); The 10th SongEun Art Award Show, SongEun Art Space, Seoul, Korea (2011); Open Studio, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY, USA (2011); Life, No Peace, Only Adventure, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea (2011); The 10th Seoul International New Media Festival – Seoul space, Korea (2010), among others.

http://www.wdw.nl/participant/gu-minja/
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