Featuring works by Jen Aitken, Sheyda Azar, Philippe Caron Lefebvre, Béatrice Côté, Lafina Eptaminitaki, Ian Ha, Ali Kaeini, Woojae Kim, Jung Won Lee, Jieun Lim, Letizia Scarpello, Sao Tanaka, and Jeehee Yoo.

November 22 - December 11, 2024

Opening Reception: Friday, November 22, 6-8pm

'I can hear the silent dissonance' performance by Woojae Kim: Saturday, November 26 & december 7, 6-7pm

NARS Main Gallery

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NARS Foundation is pleased to present Maybe—map(ping) dissonance, an exhibition featuring the Season IV, 2024 International Residency Artists‍.

Map(ping) dissonance. The term map, as described by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, embodies a dynamic, open phenomena that consists of multiple lines of entry and cultivates connections across fields. This nonhierarchical denomination, that is “detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification,” offers a framework for the works of the artists in residence. The works encompass this cartographic exercise with a functionality akin to maps that ping, or send a signal to, planes of dissonance. Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the map and the term ping are conjoined here as map(ping) to indicate how the works as maps direct attention to a thing: the thing here being dissonance. Dissonance refers to the cacophony of sound that fills our contemporary moment: the spirited noise of the fight against evil; the compulsion to speak up and against; the visual noise of spectacle and online junk detritus; and the incessant rhythm of capitalism. In Noise: The Political Economy of Music, Jacques Attali shares, “By listening to noise, we can better understand where the folly of humanity and its calculations is leading us, and what hopes it is still possible to have.” Noise therefore serves as a reflective instrument to gauge our present social conditions and future coordinates. The artists in the exhibition react to the conflicted noises of today and employ the process of map(ping) to contemplate on our global dissonance, historical and present conflict, transitory presence, landscape ideology, and material form.

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