“URGENCY: Daddy’s Dinner” Poster image. ©413 BETA413 BETA presents “URGENCY:
Daddy’s Dinner”, second exhibition under the UNRGENCY project by Network The
OVEN, through July 7.
Network OVEN is an international network
that aims to activate independent ecosystems of art world through connections
of different cities. UREGECY is a long-term project that will see three
consecutive exhibitions at 413 BETA in Seoul by the teams Studio150
(Thailand-Bangkok), Tenthaus (Norway-Oslo), and Gudskul (Indonesia-Jakarta), as
well as an archival exhibition that brings them together at the Singapore Art
Museum.
The project's theme delves into the crisis
of independence facing each community and the urgent issues of the global
community, transcending regional and cultural boundaries. Centered on the theme
of "URGENCY," each team's individual exhibition explores materiality
connected to their sense of urgency, seeking new possibilities for interaction
between different regions, cultures, and communities.
“Daddy’s dinner” is a collaborative project
curated by Tenthaus in celebration of Pride Month for the third consecutive
year. The exhibition was first presented at Tenthaus, an exhibition space in
Oslo and is now showing a reconfigured version at 413BETA. The exhibition is
based on the idea of placing the discourse of migration, queerness, and
locality on the family dining table.
Through
new forms of artworks that combine video, sculpture, painting, installation,
and objects, the exhibition materializes the marginalized spaces around the
dining table and explores the influence of East Asian patriarchal culture. The
three artists, who have immigrated to Norway from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan,
collaboratively unravel their shared experiences of power dynamics, which they
call ‘dinner-table politics’, despite their different geopolitical backgrounds.
