KISSSSS by Yong Soon Min

KISSSSS by Yong Soon Min

Curated by Bridget R. Cooks, Ph.D.
In collaboration with Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA)

 

Oct. 5-Dec. 14, 2024
Memorial for Yong Soon Min: Saturday, Oct. 5, 12-2 p.m.
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct. 5, 2-6 p.m.

Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

This exhibition features the last artworks of UC Irvine Professor Emerita Yong Soon Min before her untimely passing on March 12, 2024. It includes Both Sides Now (2018), Still/Incessant (2018/2024), an artist book that revisits her longstanding interest in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)—the liminal space between North and South Korea—as well as research and notes for the unfinished artwork, KISSSSS

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This installation is co-sponsored by UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art and UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts with lead support generously provided by Center for Critical Korean Studies and Claire Trevor Society.

Image credit: Yong Soon Min, Image from KISSSSS. Photographer: David Kelley, 2024


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Dates: 
October 5, 2024 - 12:00pm
December 14, 2024 - 6:00pm
December 14, 2024 - 12:00pm
December 14, 2024 - 6:00pm