The Sea We Want to See part 1 at Korea Foundation Gallery
Artist: Sam Hersbach, Afra Eisma, Jiajia Qi, Katherina Heil
Exhibition title: The Sea We Want to See part 1
Curated by: Heeseung Choi, Jiajia Qi
Venue: Korea Foundation Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Date: June 20 – August 17, 2024
Photography: Ahina Archive / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists, all images copyright and courtesy of the artists, Korea Foundation, and Billytown
The Sea We Want to See part 1is an exhibition that is a component of an exchange project between Billytown artist-run initiative in The Hague and Korea Foundation Gallery in Seoul. It curated by Heeseung Choi and Jiajia Qi and highlights The Hague bases artists in Seoul. It showcases the works of four international artists Sam Hersbach, Afra Eisma, Jiajia Qi, and Katherina Heil. Through diverse mediums including paintings, textiles, installations, sculptures, and drawings, the exhibition explores themes such as the environment and women, the virtual and the real, the cosmos and the human, and perception and experience.
‘Raising a sea spray’ is the main theme of the exhibition. The sea spray is softer than the waves and winds of the sea, and we can see it without wariness or hostility. It seems to appear and disappear as quickly as it came, but it is constantly happening, an invisible and powerful force of nature that makes us remember the ground we stand on. The title of the exhibition is also the meaning of possibilities to see how the artists from the Netherlands, where water and the sea are so familiar in everyday life that it has been called ‘the lowest sea horizontal line’, and South Korea, where most of the land is surrounded by the sea, will experience each other’s landscapes of water. Visitors will be able to embrace the concept of the exhibition as a fluid phenomenon, rather than a fixed form or theory, and will be able to create different shapes of sea spray in their own minds.
Supported by Korea Foundation, Billytown, Mondriaan Fonds, Dutch Embassy Korea
The Sea We Want to See part 1, 2024, exhibition view, Korea Foundation Gallery, SeoulThe Sea We Want to See part 1, 2024, exhibition view, Korea Foundation Gallery, SeoulSam Hersbach, The Gallery and the architectural introduction of an unknown crawler, Catfish mountain Glue, The Dove Dove into the Lake…Found the Achive, Dove Dov lake, Accumulating Waters (balcony at como) (from left to right), 2023, Charcoal, pigment, arcylic binder, acrylics and varnish, 30 x 40 cm eachSam Hersbach, The Esculaap Dike, 2021， Charcoal, pigment, Charcoal, pigment, arcylic binder, acrylics and varnish, 80 x 140cmSam Hersbach, Shark deep sea-internet cable interaction KF Building portray, 2024，Pigment, gouache, pigment binder, charcoal, graphite, acrylicpaint, vanish, gesso, Vinyl paint, special wall paint, 50 x 40 cmThe Sea We Want to See part 1, 2024, exhibition view, Korea Foundation Gallery, SeoulAfra Eisma, She laughed purple , 2024, Arcylic yarn and polyester backing latex, 188x155cmAfra Eisma, Warrior Garment I,II, 2023, textile, coat hanger, 240x60x5cm eachAfra Eisma, Ants on a Log, 2023, Arcylic yarn and polyester backing latex, 230x 635cmJiajia Qi, Who Listens, At Dust, 2023-2024, Spotlight, Nylon Thread, Resin ,Carpet, 600x350x320cmJiajia Qi, Who Listens, At Dust, 2023-2024, Spotlight, Nylon Thread, Resin ,Carpet, 600x350x320cmJiajia Qi, What If “What If” was What Was, 2024, Nylon Thread, Flashlight, 280x330x 410cmJiajia Qi, What If “What If” was What Was, 2024, Nylon Thread, Flashlight, 280x330x 410cmKatherina Heil, Orbiters, 2020-2024, Laser print with synthetic resin dispersion, ink on paper, aluminum, reflective foil, wood, 406 x 60 x 220 cmKatherina Heil, Orbiters, 2020-2024, Laser print with synthetic resin dispersion, ink on paper, aluminum, reflective foil, wood, 406 x 60 x 220 cmKatherina Heil, Almost, 2019, 3D Animation, HDMI Flatscreen, Headphones, 120 x 70 cm (in collaboration with Rik Möhlmann)Katherina Heil, I Dreamt That I Was Holding the First Metorite, 2020, Gypsum Iron Meteorite, 20x11x5cm
