Kyungmi Shin
citizen, not barbarian
November 20, 2021 - January 8, 2022
Los Angeles
The exhibition title is a quote from Edouard Glissant’s “Poetics of Relation” where he describes the otherness and its internal and external positionality beyond how it’s understood through a Western lens that orders and sustains systematic hierarchies. Glissant focuses on opacity – a lack of transparency for and toward the other – that can “coexist and converge, weaving fabrics. To understand these truly one must focus on the texture of the weave and not on the nature of its components.” Looking at the “Other” as a citizen and not a barbarian.
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Citizen Not Barbarian with Kyungmi Shin, Transnational Korean Studies at UC San Diego, January 21, 2022.
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