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Podcast: Secession Podcast
Episode: Artists: Forms of the Shadow - Kyungah Ham in conversation with Bettina Spörr
Description: Following a conversation with guest curator Sunjung Kim, this podcast is the first to focus on the individual artists in the exhibition and their works.
This episode, recorded on 20 September 2024, is dedicated to the ambivalence between the deceptive, aesthetically seductive surface and the unexpected abysses hidden behind Kyungah Ham’s conceptual embroidery works. It all began with a North Korean propaganda leaflet the artist found on her parents' doorstep one day and the question, "What if I send these things back to North Korea and communicate with anonymous people and share this strange feeling (...)".
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