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Micheal Joo in INTROVERSE: ALLEGORY TODAY: New York

Past exhibition
14 December 2022 - 4 February 2023
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Image courtesy of 80WSE Gallery.
Image courtesy of 80WSE Gallery.

Introverse: Allegory Today intimates the allegorical turn in current artistic practice characterized by the psychological interiorization, libidinal symbolism, and melancholic contemplation of contemporary life. Featuring 12 artists, the exhibition presents diffused figurations and extended metaphors that embody the spiritual and political complexities of our times, traversing individual interiorities to reflect on the im- mensity of the outer world.

 

With each work, the surplus of significations, narratives and affects implode to reveal radical uncertainty coupled with the will to persevere. These allegorical modes reference and estrange our current reality, offering forking paths towards negation and becoming.

  

Extending Walter Benjamin’s view of European Baroque and Benjamin Buchloh’s analysis of post-war collage and appropriation strategies, Introverse takes stock of emergent allegorical procedures that mediate our political and social reality, constituting different ways “to speak publicly with hidden meaning.”

 

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Works
  • Michael Joo Untitled 4 (Single Breath Transfer), 2018-2019 Mold-blown glass 17 x 11 x 8 in 43.2 x 27.9 x 20.3 cm
    Michael Joo
    Untitled 4 (Single Breath Transfer), 2018-2019
    Mold-blown glass
    17 x 11 x 8 in
    43.2 x 27.9 x 20.3 cm
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