You are cordially invited to the opening of Bomi Yook's K-DIALECTICS exhibition on Friday, May 2nd, 2025, which will take place at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture in Metaxata at 7.30 pm.
K-DIALECTICS: Faith, Ideology, and Colonial Violence in Korean Diasporic Memory is a solo exhibition featuring experimental animation films by Korean Canadian media artist Bomi Yook.Drawing together conflicting ideologies, symbolic, and material practice, the films depict a divided yet intra-related world of meaning that is ripe with tension, contradiction, and competition over the position of dominant narrativization.Exploring the Ecologies of Trace- of the Other and Otherness within the self, the animations reveal identity and ideologies as inter-constitutive, seeing the world as a paradoxical blend of contexts rather than distinct, isolated definitions.By confronting the generative and destructive aspects of historic entanglement, the exhibition addresses the violence and paradox inherent within identity formation and its never ending pursuit for self-certainty.Within this process, the ghosts of the oppressed—the marginalized and silenced—are not passive remnants but active agents of transformation. Their haunting presence resists erasure, compelling a reckoning that reshapes the social order.Yook's work examines Korean memory through the lens of Derridean Hauntology, Barad’s Agential Realism, and Hegelian Dialectics- exploring Korean history as a dynamic, self-reflective process where contradictions emerge, suppressed truths resurface, and universality is shaped through struggles between particular identities and entangled symbolic imaginaries.
