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Reading Images Series: Crow’s Eye View

Kim Il-sung Square, Pyongyang, 2010. Photo by Philipp Meuser.

Kim Il-sung Square, Pyongyang, 2010. Photo by Philipp Meuser.

“Reading Images: Crow’s Eye View” is a reflection on a series of images from Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula, an upcoming exhibition that reprises work from the Korean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture, which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

For the first time, Crow’s Eye View brings together images, texts and objects of the architectures of both North and South Korea. A unified entity for more than a millennia, the aftermath of World War II witnessed the division of the Korean Peninsula into two polarized countries. Over-simplified perspectives have long obscured both the differences and similarities between the two Koreas. Eschewing politically motivated clichés, Crow’s Eye View employs architecture as an instrument to construct new imaginaries and narratives for Korean and global communities.

Crow’s Eye View draws inspiration from a poem of the same title by the Korean architect-turned-poet Yi Sang (1910-37). In contrast to a “bird’s eye view,” a singular and unifying perspective, a “crow’s eye view” is an emblem of the fragmented vision born from the contradictions of colonialism and the Cold War. The exhibition points to “the impossibility of a cohesive grasp of not only the architecture of a divided Korea, but the idea of architecture itself.”

“Reading Images: Crow’s Eye View” invites participants to look critically at the possibilities hidden behind the images presented at the exhibition. Each participant will present for 7 minutes, reflecting on issues related to monumental architecture, the demilitarized zone, the use of images in the construction of utopian scenarios, the role of architecture in the formation of the nation-state, and critical curatorial practice.

Crow’s Eye View will open to the public on September 10th at Tina Kim Gallery in Chelsea.











When: Tue., Sep. 8, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Where: Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St.
212-431-5795
Price: Free
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Kim Il-sung Square, Pyongyang, 2010. Photo by Philipp Meuser.

Kim Il-sung Square, Pyongyang, 2010. Photo by Philipp Meuser.

“Reading Images: Crow’s Eye View” is a reflection on a series of images from Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula, an upcoming exhibition that reprises work from the Korean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture, which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

For the first time, Crow’s Eye View brings together images, texts and objects of the architectures of both North and South Korea. A unified entity for more than a millennia, the aftermath of World War II witnessed the division of the Korean Peninsula into two polarized countries. Over-simplified perspectives have long obscured both the differences and similarities between the two Koreas. Eschewing politically motivated clichés, Crow’s Eye View employs architecture as an instrument to construct new imaginaries and narratives for Korean and global communities.

Crow’s Eye View draws inspiration from a poem of the same title by the Korean architect-turned-poet Yi Sang (1910-37). In contrast to a “bird’s eye view,” a singular and unifying perspective, a “crow’s eye view” is an emblem of the fragmented vision born from the contradictions of colonialism and the Cold War. The exhibition points to “the impossibility of a cohesive grasp of not only the architecture of a divided Korea, but the idea of architecture itself.”

“Reading Images: Crow’s Eye View” invites participants to look critically at the possibilities hidden behind the images presented at the exhibition. Each participant will present for 7 minutes, reflecting on issues related to monumental architecture, the demilitarized zone, the use of images in the construction of utopian scenarios, the role of architecture in the formation of the nation-state, and critical curatorial practice.

Crow’s Eye View will open to the public on September 10th at Tina Kim Gallery in Chelsea.

Buy tickets/get more info now