세계에 씨뿌리기 Sowing Worlds

SFAC Galleries partners with Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul, South Korea for a Group Exhibition That Explores the Worldwide Impacts of Climate Change

December 9, 2022 – February 11, 2023 
SFAC Main Gallery, War Memorial Veterans Building 
401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 126, San Francisco

The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery, in partnership with Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul, South Korea, presents Sowing Worlds, a group exhibition featuring works by five artists based in the Bay Area alongside five artists based in South Korea starting December 9, 2022 and will be on view through February 11, 2023. 

The effects of climate change have become ever clearer: massive wildfires, record breaking temperatures, floods, increasingly powerful storms, droughts and other calamities are taking place all over the world. How we move forward to address the changes occurring is a constant question, and at times, seem to falter at the scope of what is happening. At what point do we alter our lives to mitigate or halt the effects of climate change?  

Sowing Worlds brings together artists who are thinking expansively and critically about living with climate change. The works in the exhibition explore sustainable agriculture, the intertwining legacies of colonialism and its effects on the land, and ancestral connection to a place in flux. 

Sowing Worlds takes its title from a chapter in theorist Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, that draws on the work of authors Octavia Butler and Ursula LeGuin to speak to new ways of thinking and addressing climate change.  

“Drawing upon artists and the arts has always been a fruitful way to think more creatively, with openness and compassion, on large issues like climate change,” states SFAC Galleries Associate Curator Jackie Im. “Climate change affects us all and artists are uniquely poised to be able to think speculatively about how we move forward as the world changes.”  

Sowing Worlds is a companion exhibition to Sisters, We Grow, which was on view at Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul, South Korea from September 23 – October 23, 2022.  

Both exhibitions feature work by Binta Ayofemi, Cristine Blanco, Heesoo Kwon, Emma Logan, Sun Park, Eunbi Kwon, Nayoungim & Gregory Maass, JongHeon Bae, Da-Seul Lee, and Go-Eun Im and was curated by Jackie Im, Sun Mi Lee, and Ji Yoon Yang. 

                                    photos via instagram

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전시는 지난 9월 대안공간 루프에서 열린 <자매들, 우리는 커진다: 서울-샌프란시스코 교류전>의 연계 전시이며, 한국과 샌프란시스코 베이 에어리어에서 활동하는 아티스트 10팀의 국제교류 기획전입니다.

전시기간: 2022년 12월 9일(금) - 2023년 2월 11일(토)
전시장소: 샌프란시스코 아트 커미션 메인 갤러리

참여작가: 권은비, 권희수, 김나영&그레고리 마스, 박선, 배종헌, 빈타 아요페미, 엠마 로건, 이다슬, 임고은, 크리스틴 블랑코
큐레이터: 양지윤, 이선미, 재키 임

주최/주관: 샌프란시스코 아트 커미션 갤러리
협력기관: 대안공간 루프
후원: 한국문화예술위원회