Two Weeks' Vacation is a note from an adventure in China, as an experience of travel without clear aims or directions, where a sense of unease is the traveller's contestant companion. There are stories so full of risk and daring adventure that it seems as though the heroes of the story might never make it home. These sagas are an honor belonging to only those lucky enough to return. Based on artits' experience in the Nomadic Residency in China, Two Weeks' Vacation will deal with issues related to an artists' experiences of moving and living within these contemporary art scenes and systems, and are expressed as metaphors for drifting and survival.
Each of the participating artists is engaged in artist-in-residence programs, and through these opportunities to experience exchange between institutions and international networks, they have expanded the boundaries of their art practices, as well as their understandings of their nomadic activities. This exhibition includes an insight into some of the things that the artists imagined before entering these programs, as well as record of what actually happened during their stay, including their thoughts about the characteristics of these locations - including Beijing, Kunming, Dali, and Lijiang - and their reflections on the overall structures of each program. Like other notes from an adventure literally described, this exhibition presents the many different events and relationships that developed between Korean and Chinese artists, alongside depictions of the exotic landscapes and cultures that they found.
Persia was the old name of Iran, This empire from the ancient times was governed by Cyrus, a powerful king who pioneered the human rights law that suppressed the unjust violation of peoples rights and freedom of which one effect was the released of captives and allowed them to return to their homelands.
Persian Wind is a recent exhibition jointly organized by Iranian an Korean artists to deepen the relationship built between the two despite of the initial short meeting they had late last year. This exhibition was achieved towards the idea of immersion with Nature that is endlessly moving that gives us a vast breathing space of "differences" but harmonious "equality" manifested visually through various media.
It is our sincere hope that the ancient and rightful "Persian Wide" blows continually as ever-fresh in this contemporary times and heals and recovers the ailing Nature and showers a good abundant rain and regain the naturalness of mankind which has dried up to the endless ill effects of ararice.