The Korean Cultural Centre in New Delhi presents the exhibition ‘WE’, a शब्द / شبد  (śabd), curated by Baishali Ghosh and Rajarshi Sengupta, opening at Korean Cultural Centre in New Delhi, on 12 August, 2016. The exhibition will be on view till 10 September 2016. The opening will be followed by one-day symposium on 13 August 2016.

 About ‘WE’, a शब्द / شبد 

“Pronouns, nouns, and verbs were citizens of different countries, who really got together to make a new world" - Audre Lorde (1981)

This exhibition explores collective curatorial practices and strings together the ideas on the simulation of ‘WE’ and शब्द, شبد (śabd).  ‘WE’ is a ‘word', that indicates togetherness, while ‘word’ merely means ‘शब्द/ شبد (śabd) in Hindi, Urdu and other Indian vernacular languages.  ‘शब्द/ شبد’ also suggests noise, voice, and echo. Thus 'We' is perceived as a शब्द/ شبد (sound) and a word as well.  We as a शब्द / شبد   experiments with conflicts and interdependence that triggers from the global meaning of ‘WE’. In the past nine months, participants from South Korea, Iran, Mauritius, United States of America, Canada, Ecuador, and India shared views on liminality and shifting sense of 'WE' and its relationship with vernacular and global languages. The journey of confrontation, contestations, compromises, and integration, that erupted from the discussions of the participants have morphed into the six installations.

These six installations in the Korean Cultural Centre are ‘Naqsh', ‘Excerpts from Our All Wet Talk’,‘Wee-Arc’,‘Dining Together’,‘Twin Paradox’ and ‘Anthology of Unknowingly Yours’. They are an integration of sound, poems, videos, sculptures, paintings, crafts, photographs and drawings.

‘Naqsh’ is an entangled network. It is layered with narratives of dislocations, travel, and memoir. ‘Excerpts from Our All Wet Talk’ is about squabbling community identity with different yet similar orientation to their vernacular languages. ‘Wee-Arc’ deals with the sonic intervention that are integral to everyday walk. ‘Dining Together’ is an animistic interference in the ecstasy of eating together in the metro city. ‘Twin Paradox’ experiments with conventional and modern wood block-making process. The prints make embedded sameness and togetherness as image and impressions. Those set different trajectory of travel in time. ‘Anthology of Unknowingly Yours’ plays seven videos in the loop to unfold a zone of isolation, separation, and longing.

'WE', a शब्द / شبد   has thrown together :  Ajit Kumar (India), Alessandra Santos (Canada), Alice Choi (South Korea/Canada), An Gyungsu (South Korea), Anindita Chakraborty (India), Baishali Ghosh (India), Bijay Nath (India),  Beom Jinyong (South Korea), Cynthia Bodenhorst (Ecuador), Hwang Soonwon (South Korea), Moon Ewon (South Korea), Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda (Canada), Jagadeesh Reddy (India), Jeff O’Brien (Canada), Kathleen Wyma (Canada/Hong Kong), Krishna Luchoomun (Mauritus), Kunal Karla, (India),  Nagashree Upadhya (India), Nasim Peikazadi (Iran/Canada), Neermala Luckeenarain (Mauritus), Paramita Das (India), Rajarshi Sengupta (India), Rajesh Kumar (India), Ranjith Raman (India), Ravi Chunchula (India),  Sarah Shamash (Canada),  Sharmistha Kar (India), Shanthi Swaroopini (India), Sheikh Ansari (India), Sofija Sutton (United States of America), Somedutta Mallik (India), Steve DiPaola (Canada), Yaron Lapid (United Kingdom) and  Yumnum Sapha Wangam (India).

Anthology of Unknowingly Yours’, Ewon Moon,  Mixed Isolation, flash based video still cut, 2015

Dining together, Bijay Nath, golden grass, jute, straw, 43 x 20x 10cm

Naqsh, Beom Jinyong , Character , ink on canvas, 30x 30 cm

Twin Paradox, Muhammed Afaque Ansari and Rajarshi Sengupta, a set of thirty wooden blocks ,app 7.62 x 7.62 cm (each), 2016

Wee-Arc, sonic composition, 2016