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
