residual han - guest artist mihyun maria kim at Red Head Gallery
On view Feb 28 - Mar 9
Opening night Feb 29, 6 - 8pm
Han is an untranslatable Korean affect associated with historical unresolved grief, separated families, and loss of collective identity. Han is an accumulation of intergenerational trauma, which in the North American context has been sustained by suspended assimilation and dislocation/migration. Through relational methodology, the in/visible limits of its translatability are revealed/concealed. Residual Han brings inherited and copied objects, ritual in repetition, sound, and artist activations together in a temporal installation that proposes an arc of events in relation to preceding exhibitions—the Measure of Han and Brea[d]th of Han.