Kukje Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition with ten artists entitled "oblique strategies", from August 31st to October 3rd. Oblique Strategies borrows from an artwork of the same name by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt which suggests that whenever an artist is in a panic for ideas, more interesting possibilities could be found by taking an oblique approach to the problem rather than taking it head on. The title also functions as a sort of leitmotif that wends its way through the show to join the works of ten participating artists. The "oblique strategies" exhibition gathers together the artists' diverse, somewhat roundabout routes developed in order to create relationships with the world. Rather than offering problem-solution approaches or direct critiques of actions that take place within the uncertainties of the world, the works in the show acknowledge reality and focus on articulating actual methodologies for living in the here and now. Instead of attempting to grasp at a reductive totality that lies outside of the immediate, a fragment of such an imagined totality is perceived, and the works are constructed from the attempt to ask questions that begin with such fragments. Of course, the artists each maintain different interests with their own particular areas of inquiry, but overall, what such works suggest are critical ways of thinking about how to transform existing modes, rules, stereotypes, and other overruling systems of meaning which continue to exert power over us. However, the artists' critical positions, in contrast to the past, are neither realist nor revolutionary, nor do they seek to broadcast such one-sided messages. Although they resist the notions of progress and utopia, which continue to exert control over us as ruling ideologies, they do so by making simple but nonetheless sharp interventions in the particular and the detail rather than the totality, and by creating a strong impact from the seemingly insignificant, each artist, in his or her own way, creates a panoply of micro-utopias that offer us alternative possibilities.