Events
From January 14 to March 18, 2017
Exhibition Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.
- Exhibition view of "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, 2017. With works by Rose Lowder and Sojung Jun. Courtesy of the artists. Image: Aurélien Mole.
- Exhibition view of "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, 2017. With works by Rose Lowder and Sojung Jun. Courtesy of the artists. Image: Aurélien Mole.
Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us. revolves around Sojung Jun, Pernod Ricard Fellow in residence at Villa Vassilieff. Borrowing its title from Dictée, an experimental autobiographical novel written by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in 1982 in which the Korean artist evoked her experience of exile, the exhibition echoes the entanglement of individual narratives of circulation and migration. Addressing issues of displacement, it questions thresholds between inside and outside, distance and proximity, and interrogates feelings associated with multiple identities.
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Saturday February 25, 2017
Performance Interval. Recess. Pause.
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, "Dictée", artist book, 1982. Courtesy of the Estate Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
- Shooting of Sojung Jun’s video in the framework of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship. Performance by dancer and choreographer Olivia Lioret at Villa Vassilieff, February 25, 2017. Photograph: Victorine Grataloup.
- Shooting of Sojung Jun’s video in the framework of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship. Performance of dancer and choreographer Olivia Lioret in the exhibition "Tell me the story of all these things. Beginning wherever you wish, tell even us.", Villa Vassilieff, Paris, February 25, 2017. Image: Victorine Grataloup.
Korean artist Sojung Jun, in residence at Villa Vassilieff in the framework of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, invite the dancer and choreographer Olivia Lioret to interpret a page of the experimental novel Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, that gives its title to the exhibition Tell me the story of all these things.
Indeed, the reference to Dictée - which interrogates memory and uprootedness by exploring nine stories of women - structure the video of Sojung Jun currently in production in Paris, that will look at the exile of Korean children adopted in France. For 40 years, since the first adoption in 1958, South Korea fell back on international adoption. Ten thousand Korean children were adopted in France, second country for adoption after the United States. In her film, Sojung Jun looks at the visual, sound, olfactory and taste memories of Korea kept by some of these persons adopted in France, and focuses on the potential building of an individual and collective sensorial memory.
For this public part of Sojung Jun’s film shooting, Olivia Lioret interprets a page of Dictée significantly chosen from the section of the novel placed under the aegis of Erato, muse of lyric poetry. In Cha’s work, "words become mental images, mental images become sounds, sounds become filmed images, filmed images become still images, still images become moments of memory" (Elvan Zabunyan, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Berkeley - 1968). Likewise, the performance at Villa Vassilieff will raise movements out of Cha’s words through the repetitions and variations of a choreographic phrase by Olivia Lioret, then of these movements filmed by Sojung Jun make moving images which will resonate in her film with the testimonies of men and women of Korean origin adopted in France and met during her residence.
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