Missings: From Baikal to Heaven Lake, from Manchuria to Kailong Temple
Westfälischer Kunstverein•Oct 12, 2024 — Feb 02, 2025
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Mooni Perry’s words “creating by losing” have stayed with me since our first conversation. At the time, we were discussing the telling of stories, the handing down and appropriation of history or histories, as well as the insight that no narrative can ever be fully depicted.
A text, a philosophy, a myth, a practice or an idea is always subject to change in view of its time-specific contexts, resulting in a multitude of variations. Based on considerations of Daoist philosophy, Mooni Perry (born in 1990 in Seoul, KR) traces these shifts in her new exhibition at the Westfälischer Kunstverein. This is because it is a good way of understanding the extent to which every form of culture, communication or philosophy has always, axiomatically, emerged from the appropriation of another. Historically-established origin stories are of less interest to the artist than the realisation that the Daoist philosophy is closely interwoven with Buddhism and Confucianism and is subject to...More
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Missings: From Baikal to Heaven Lake, from Manchuria to Kailong Temple
Westfälischer Kunstverein•Oct 12, 2024 — Feb 02, 2025
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Mooni Perry’s words “creating by losing” have stayed with me since our first conversation. At the time, we were discussing the telling of stories, the handing down and appropriation of history or histories, as well as the insight that no narrative can ever be fully depicted.
A text, a philosophy, a myth, a practice or an idea is always subject to change in view of its time-specific contexts, resulting in a multitude of variations. Based on considerations of Daoist philosophy, Mooni Perry (born in 1990 in Seoul, KR) traces these shifts in her new exhibition at the Westfälischer Kunstverein. This is because it is a good way of understanding the extent to which every form of culture, communication or philosophy has always, axiomatically, emerged from the appropriation of another. Historically-established origin stories are of less interest to the artist than the realisation that the Daoist philosophy is closely interwoven with Buddhism and Confucianism and is subject to...More
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