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E X H I B I T I O N REVIEW: GUCCI by Senna Wouters

Shops closed, businesses closed and not being able to go see a movie or visit your favorite museum in this quarantine is just one of the many things that are not possible. But, thanks to technology, there these days are many ways to still do your favorite activity online. From online shopping, to watching that specific movie you wanted to watch on Netflix. And yes, many museum sites and exhibitions do offer a 360-experience on their website. a sort of laundromat with quite the unusual washing clothes: mermaid tales. This instalment, created by Olivia Erlanger, gives us the question if the mermaids are jumping in the washing machine or coming out? The philosophy, according to the man voice giving me the audio tour, is that a laundromat is a place where people dream of owning a space with room for your own washing machine and dryer. Also, according to the artist are the mermaids we see pre-gendered (and not the common association we make that they are female).

Today, we are going to explore an exhibition that the Gucci app offers. The Daelim Museum in Seoul, North Korea offers a unique invitation to their abstract exposition called “No Space, Just A Place.” The app describes it as an “abstract form of the space as a simple geographical location, into a place, an embodied form activated by human experience.” The exhibition will be full of large-scale artwork of 10 independent art spaces from Seoul, combined with five artworks from Korean and international artists. The tour comes with audio-supported preferences so without further ado, let’s jump right into it.

When first entering the museum, I ended up in the hallway where there is an opportunity to take a booklet dividing each room and describing what is found in each one. On the left-hand wall there is a description of what the exposition will be about. To just sum it up: it takes its cue from the Korean artistic ecosystem to initiate a reflection on our times and the deep mutations that humanity is experiencing. With options to go straight forward or turn right, I choose straight forward where I ended up in

The next installation starts in the staircase and brings up upstairs, to work from Kang Seung Lee. What I see at first impression is a lot off A4-format black and white posters with some just words and others with pictures of drawings. After listening to the audio, I learned that these are all files exploring histories of sexual minorities in Korea, all from private and public archives. His work is made out of around 1500 archived books, mainly known as Queer Arch. His main focus point of choosing this topic is to bring light to over 40 years of alienated sexual minority, covered up for society.