Available to pre-order now, and for a limited time, at the special price of £32, (reduced from £35).
distinguish the limit from the edge is an intergenerational dialogue between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert. Their connection emerges through the intersection of text and image between selected work from Cha’s oeuvre and Robert’s practice that share the formal strategies of the fold.
Robert’s utilizes paper as a sculptural material, and his hand sometimes appears to shape the page. For Cha, the fold is present in her compositions enmeshing language through strategies of visual poetry, as in L’Image Concrete feuille L’Objet Abstrait (1976), and Untitled (après tu parti) (1976) which are both previously unpublished. The possibility of overlaying of one’s work with the other, emphasised by the book’s spiral-bound double spine, and reverse fold-outs, forges an intimacy, a shared sensibility, and an encounter with the corporeal. In conversation with editor Jacob Korczynski, Robert refers to Fred Moten’s In The Break, stating, ‘Suddenly time falters. Words don’t go there. And if words don’t go there, then what does?’
distinguish the limit from the edge is commissioned by Book Works, edited by Jacob Korczynski and designed by Wolfe Hall. The book is published in association with Participant Inc. with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Arts Management Services, after the exhibition:
flipping through pages keeping a record of time: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha & Jimmy Robert curated by Jacob Korczynski at Participant Inc., 6 September – 3 November, 2024, supported by a Fall 2020 Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was born on March 4, 1951 in Busan, South Korea. After studying Comparative Literature and Fine Art at the University of California in Berkeley, she moved to Paris, Amsterdam and the in 19809, to New York where she produced Dictée, a book-form collage of poetry, found text, and images; and edited Apparatus, an anthology of writings on film theory. In 1982 Cha was the artist-in-residence at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. On November 5, 1982, Cha was murdered in New York City.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings the first retrospective in over two decades dedicated to the groundbreaking work will open in January 2026, at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
Jimmy Robert was born in Guadeloupe (FR) in 1975 and currently lives and works between Paris and Berlin. He has exhibited widely including at Nottingham Contemporary, Moderna Museet, Malmö: Kunsthalle Baden-Baden: Künstlerhaus Bremen: The Hunterian, Glasgow; La Synagogue De Delme, France; Museum M, Leuven; Power Plant, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Jeu de Paume, Paris; Tate Britain, London; MoMA, New York; and Migros Museum, Zurich.
Jacob Korczynski is a curator and a PhD candidate at the Malmö Art Academy. He has curated projects for the Stedelijk Museum, Cooper Cole, Western Front, and the Badischer Kunstverein, and his writing has been published by Afterall, BOMB, Camera Austria, and Flash Art. The recent recipient of a Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, he is also the recipient of the inaugural General Idea
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