Young Min Moon’s recent paintings repetitively portray the rituals bound up in the Korean tradition of Jesa. Even amidst the disappearance of many Korean customs, Jesa, a type of Confucian ancestor veneration rites, remains a practice in South Korean society that cannot be easily discarded. Throughout the artist’s childhood, Jesa were the only moments through which he could find peace and safety in times that were rife with violence and commotion.
Young Min Moon’s recent paintings repetitively portray the rituals bound up in the Korean tradition of Jesa . Even amidst the disappearance of many Korean customs, Jesa, a type of Confucian ancestor veneration rites, remains a practice in South Korean society that cannot be easily discarded. Throughout the artist’s childhood, Jesa were the only moments through which he could find peace and safety in times that were rife with violence and commotion.
Chinese restaurants have been a familiar feature of Swedish cities since the late 1970s, embodying the foreign and the exotic. Lap-See-Lam started the project by documenting the interiors of several Chinese restaurants in Stockholm at a time when many of them were about to be taken off the map. Her own family was selling their business in 2015.
Young Min Moon is a Korean American artist, curator, critic, and art historian, who migrated to the United States from South Korea as a teenager...
Wingyee Wu is an NYU and Central Saint Martins educated filmmaker, as well as a businesswoman with roots in the Hong Kong diaspora, currently living and working in Stockholm...
Chinese restaurants have been a familiar feature of Swedish cities since the late 1970s, embodying the foreign and the exotic...
Young Min Moon’s recent paintings repetitively portray the rituals bound up in the Korean tradition of Jesa...
Young Min Moon’s recent paintings repetitively portray the rituals bound up in the Korean tradition of Jesa ...