Jason Wee in the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024, South Korea

27 Sep 2024

Jason Wee presents Stand. Move. (A Repose) in silent apple, a group exhibition that is part of the Changwon Sculpture Biennale, bringing together 86 artists from 16 countries to explore sculpture, movement, and locality.

Taking its title, silent apple, from a line in Ripe Apple, a poem by acclaimed poet Kim Hyesoon, the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024 lays the vertically erected sculptures of the city on a horizontal plane, bringing them closer to the ground. The artists in this exhibition work across a variety of forms that speak to sculpture, movement, and locality. Key themes such as sculptural horizontality, industrial change, women and labour, and community movements appear alongside landscapes in and around the exhibition, spanning intersections between factory floors and athletic fields, building terraces and tracks, trees and artificial waterfalls.

Wee’s Stand. Move. (A Repose) is a fabric maze reminiscent of a theatre set, evoking the ominous presence of barriers and fences. The work, first developed with Brian Curtin in Bangkok seven years ago, confronts the poetics of powerlessness and individual movement under coercive influence. On view until 10 November 2024, Wee’s installation offers a timely and thought-provoking commentary on themes of privacy, control, protection, division, and difference.

silent apple is on view at Seongsan Art Hall, Changwon, South Korea.

Image: Installation view of Jason Wee, Stand. Move. (A Repose), 2024, fabric panels suspended over metal frames. Courtesy of and supported by the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024.