BAIK ART presents Beneath the Layers, an exhibition gathering innovative explorations and approaches toconventional art-making methods and materials.
Artistic development is rarely separate from material experimentation. Paste newspaper scraps onto a painting tocreate a mixed media work. Take the canvas out of the frame and hang it on the wall to become a sculptural piece.Gather objects from what's near and available to create an installation or assemblage. These artists embracepractices that blur lines between painting and sculpture, two and three-dimensional works. As in performance,here the body (of the object) is the medium.
Through these methods, the artists are interpreting the intangible power that controls the social structure, tracesof which can be found in objects. They are rethinking their relationship with material by distorting the assumedcharacteristics of industrially produced surfaces. At the same time, they are documenting conversations betweenhumans and nature, re-processing paper rather than creating more waste, transforming a live performanceonto a flat surface through mixed media approach, recording daily life in a painting on sewn canvas and linen, andresurrecting the lives of 'domusongs' or paper scraps that have served their initial purpose.
The materials used are easily obtained, objects that can be found in daily life. These simple, seemingly mundanematerials are nonetheless significant in the hands of the artists. Their artistic experimentations have developedalongside the expansion of technology access and the internet, which allow them to access wider, more diversemethods and materials, and multidisciplinary approaches. As some of their peers explored the endlesspossibilities of the new through media art, these artists went back to delve deeper to the physical ways of makingwith paint, canvas, paper, and found objects. We invite viewers to investigate and imagine the stories that liebeneath each layer
BAIK ART is a Los Angeles, Seoul, and Jakarta based contemporary art gallery. Established in Los Angeles in 2014, BAIK ART introduces artists whose works deal with individual hybridity, globalisation, and cultural diaspora. In 2016, BAIK ART expanded its presence to Seoul, promoting an active artistic exchange between the two cities.
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