Mira M. Yang

The Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg is delighted to present a two-chapter exhibition by Mira M. Yang, developed in collaboration with the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris.

M. Yang’s multidisciplinary practice is grounded in a performative stance and explores how cultural narratives perform and express themselves through objects, bodies, sound, and language. M. Yang traces the persistence and transformation of cultural heritage as it migrates from one context and time to another, formulating a potential, if not a necessity, for nuanced reexamination. More recently, the artist pursues a materialist approach in which they explore specific materials and material residues as carriers of memory and ideology.

Unfolding across two chapters in Fribourg and Paris successively, M. Yang’s exhibition centers on various acts of translation and reinterpretation of the sparsely documented work of Choi Seung-Hee (1911-1969), the first woman dancer of colonial Korea to perform abroad. Among these is a sonic translation or “sonification” of dance movements into a larger sound installation. The exhibition explores the possibility of creating a living archive or record of Choi Seung-Hee’s work and experiments with different forms of notating and scoring artistic expression between dance and sound. In its two-chapter logic, the exhibition traces movement and circulation, inviting us to consider the inherent mutability of cultural forms.

Curated by Kathrin Bentele

With generous support from: État de Fribourg, Loterie Romande, Agglomération de Fribourg, Ville de Fribourg, BCF | FKB, Kunststiftung NRW