SEUNG YUL OH

Please join us for the opening of Seung Yul Oh's exhibition memmem on Friday 31 October from 6-8pm.

Following on from Oh's recent large-scale survey show MOAMOA at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the City Gallery Wellington, memmem shows Oh again working seamlessly across media, this time combining a suite of minimalist paintings with a cluster of pastel-hued acorn sculptures. The two bodies of work operate as independent yet harmonious lines, recomposing the gallery into a space for what he describes as “moments of balance and counterpoint between art object and audience, between individuals and groups, and between different cultures.” With memmem, Oh creates an active, participatory space, allowing viewers to achieve a sense of empathy with the work, with each other and the worlds they move through.

At the opening of memmem, the directors of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Cam McCracken, and the City Gallery Wellington, Elizabeth Caldwell, will launch their new publication MOAMOA, which has been produced with the generous support of the Jan Warburton Charitable Trust and the Asia New Zealand Foundation.

Upstairs we will also be opening Gavin Hipkins' exhibition Erewhon: The Book of the Machines.

Installation images ©SamHartnett courtesy of Starkwhite.