Seeing with Ten Fingers

Period

Saturday, May 3, 2025 ~ Sunday, September 7, 2025

Venue

Gallery 4 & Lobby(F1), Busan Museum of Contemporary Art

Artists

Kim Doki, Kim Eunseol, Oum Jeongsoon, Cho Youngjoo, Hong Bomi, SEOM: (Eom Yeseul, SEO Hanie), Kim Chaelin, Laumkon (Jee Song, Qrater), Lyla(Rhee Suyoun), Jung Yeondoo, Missionit (Kim Byungsu) Diane Borsato, Raphaëlle de Groot, Robert Morris, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Carmen Papalia, Finnegan Shannon, Remi Klemensiewicz

Media

Paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, performance, design, archive, mural, cartoon, etc.

Curator

Hanna Park

내용

Seeing with Ten Fingers is the final stage of a project, aimed at enhancing accessibility in museum movement. Rather than considering accessibility as a mere physical convenience, we define it as the "unique experiences of bodies" and began the two-year journey to explore the sensory functions of the bodies.

 

Last year, we held six workshops exploring ‘seeing, touching, and hearing’, examining the fluidity of bodily senses and exploring the creative potential of sensory transfer. Through this process, we sought the experiences of disabilities, interacted with diverse individuals learning from one another.

 

This year, building on these experiences, we present Seeing with Ten Fingers. Featuring the works of 20 multidisciplinary artists from Korea and abroad, the exhibition showcases over 70 synesthetic works. As the title metaphorically suggests — ten fingers as two eyes — the exhibition explores how our senses are not fixed instead, can change according to bodily conditions and circumstances. It aims to dismantle the hierarchy of senses, transcends the boundaries of disable and non-disable, and explores new sensory and existential possibilities.

 

The exhibition has three sub-themes:

 

Ten Thousand Senses explores the possibilities of transcending established norms by understanding the complexity and diversity of the world through senses, that are often considered lacked or marginalized.

The Expanded Body examines the concept of the body as it transforms through connections between humans, non-humans, and tools, and explores the value generated within the networks of diverse bodies.

The Hybrids is inspired by Donna Haraway's theory, which calls for kinship within all life forms on Earth. Therefore, it attempts to establish horizontal relationship, that goes beyond the boundaries of disable, non-disable, and species.

 

The exhibition goes beyond formal barrier-free measure, and focuses on experimenting practical accessibility. Half of the participating artists present works utilizing the sense of touch, a synesthetic viewing space called the “Sensory Station” is set up in the gallery and sign language, audio descriptions, as well as tactile materials are provided. Exhibition explanations are presented in a webtoon format, and customized-targeted tours are also arranged.

 

Throughout this project, we have contemplated the meaning of the museum, owns as a space, and what kind of experiences it should provide. This final-stage, exhibition, offers glimpses and reflections on these questions. We hope you explore this exhibition through your fingertips, ears, and the entire body, and hope to discover a new world.

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Busan MoCA Barrier-Free Exhibition Seeing with Ten Fingers Performance

Between Hands-Tangling Knots

As commemorating the opening of Seeing with Ten Fingers, Busan MoCA’s barrier-free exhibition, we prepared a special performance.

Raphaëlle de Groot is contemporary artist from Canada. The artist has stayed in Busan from 5 days ahead, preparing, and mainly uses self-created objects, discarded materials collected around Busan and received leftovers from other participating artists in the performance.

The performance gradually progresses as artist blindfolds herself, transforming her own body by interacting with audiences and prepared objects. The work induce a direct communication with audiences through unexpected circumstances and the act of ‘creation’.

The suggested theme of the exhibition, ‘accessibility’ and ‘magnanimity’, is dynamically and playfully delivered by Raphaëlle de Groot’s performance and we invite you to this live experience.

◾ Title: Between Hands-Tangling Knots

◾ Participants: audiences with and without disability

◾ Artist: Raphaëlle de Groot

◾ Date : 2025. 05. 03. (Sat) 14:00

◾ Venue: Raphaëlle de Groot exhibition space, Busan MoCA Gallery 4(F1)

◾ Reservation: on-site participate

◾ Admission: free

◾ Event: Raphaëlle de Groot is contemporary artist from Canada, one of our participating artists for Seeing with Ten Fingers. The performance art creates spontaneity circumstances as the artist works blindfolded, transforms her body by interacting with audiences and using various objects, and playfully experiments ‘the constraints of sense’, ‘accidentality’, ‘cooperation’ and ‘threats’.

◾ Guidance

- This program is designed to be inclusive, welcoming participation from audiences of all abilities.

- There can be a change in venue and dates according to the museum’s internal circumstances.

- Photographs and video taken during the program can be used as museum’s promotional and archive purposes.