FRIEZE SEOUL 2025

Coordinates of the Unseen

From September 3 to 6, 2025, Tina Keng Gallery will join forces with TKG+ in a collaborative booth at this year’s Frieze Seoul, presenting works by Taiwanese artists Su Meng-Hung, Jam Wu, and Chiu Chen-Hung, Chinese artist Su Xiaobai, Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich, Singaporean artist Jane Lee, and Indian artist Amol K. Patil.

The exhibition adopts Coordinates of the Unseen as its overarching theme, signifying how each artist’s cultural background and distinct life experience bring to light topics and elements that are often neglected, repressed, or ineffable. These concerns do not manifest in overt ways but instead emerge through indirect, refracted, or reconstructed forms. In a contemporary society increasingly fixated on appearances, the “visible” has become the default measure of value and truth. However, what truly shapes our cognition, memory, and emotional life often lies beyond the visual threshold—fractures in history, voids in language, and traces of emotion. Through the perspectives of the artists, Coordinates of the Unseen seeks to map these subtle yet potent undercurrents and emotional terrains that shape the reality we inhabit.

The works not only probe into space, memory, and structures of power, but also question the very act of seeing. Through layered imagery, unfinished narratives, and the encoding and translation of materials, the artists mark out new “coordinates” within existing histories and realities—challenging the visual frameworks imposed by dominant narratives. Among the participating artists, some attend to silenced voices and hidden images—gently invoking personal and collective memories that have never been fully “seen.” Others explore how identity and symbols mutate and dislocate through bodily experience and the everyday, prompting a reconsideration of presence and immediacy.

“Coordinates” represent a mode of positioning—but also a metaphor for power structures. The unseen coordinates symbolise experiences excluded from dominant discourse: unnamed, unacknowledged, and institutionally invisible. These intangible elements should not be mistaken for absence; rather, they form the critical threads of our lived reality.