SOLO-SHOW
Opening: 15.11.2024 / 6 pm
with an introduktion by curator and artist, followed by talk and screening
curated by: Agnes D. Schofield
On February 6, 2008, Tran Thanh Lan, a young Vietnamese woman, was found dead in a small town in South Korea. Jumped to her death from a balcony, according to the police report. Artist-in-residence Kyong Ju Park doesn’t buy this version. For 16 years she has been working on this case and treating it in her artworks. It has been on stage at the theatre, it has been in the
Seoul Museum of Art, and now it is in Bad Ems. Her installation at RichCake not only highlights the case of Tran Thanh Lan, but all such crimes throughout the world. Human rights abuses, modern slavery and exploitation are the topics of the Korean artist Kyong Ju Park, who sees profiteering marriage brokers at the centre of this vortex. During her residency at Bad Ems, Kyong Ju Park has carried on with her mammoth project. Coincidentally, she experienced similar insecurity due to immigration laws. Her exhibition at RichCake draws parallels to her own experience with German immigration and her tortuous quest to obtain her residency permit.
In cooperation with the Stadtmuseum Bad Ems, where some of Kyong Ju Park’s works are exhibited as well.
NOTE: The artist will be at RichCake daily from 11.30 am to 1.30 pm (except Monday and Saturday).
image: Courtesy of the artist