ROH (Jakarta, Indonesia) and Whistle (Seoul, South Korea) are pleased to present a collaborative presentation, Reflections for Frieze Seoul 2024. The premise of this collaboration begins with the pronounced interests by artists within each gallery’s program on various notions of fundamental matter and the interconnected connections between their respective artists. This interest considers the ways by which artistic conception may extend beyond boundaries and into interrelated conceptual as well as aesthetic consideration and dialogue.
Whistle presents works by Hyun Bhin Kwon, Hyun Nahm, Jiieh G Hur, Minha Park, and Taeyoon Kim. ROH presents works by Maria Taniguchi, Mella Jaarsma, Stella Zhong, Syaiful Garibaldi, and Kei Imazu.
ROH x Whistle
Frieze Seoul
COEX Hall C
Booth B20
Coex Mall
513 Yeongdong-daero
Gangnam-gu, Seoul
South Korea
VIP Preview (by invitation only):
4 September, 11:00 - 19:00
Public Days
5 - 7 September, 11:00 - 19:00
Please reach out to [email protected] for more information
Artists
Born 1980, Yamaguchi, Japan
Lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia
Kei Imazu utilizes everyday contemporary internet environment in collecting all sorts of artworks and objects that exist in and beyond the form of an image. After thoroughly going through her great volume of collected data, she distorts, reconstructs, and sketches them digitally. With the sketch she has created, Imazu traces it onto the canvas using oil paint, a method she currently employs to create her artworks.
Imazu received her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the Department of Painting at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan in 2015 and 2007 respectively. Imazu has several solo exhibitions, including unearth at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2023); Sowed them to the earth at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (2023); Mapping the Land/Body/Stories of its Past at ANOMALY, Tokyo, Japan (2021); Anda disini / You are here at Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan (2019); Measuring Invisible Distance at Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo, Japan (2018); and Overgrown at ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia (2018). Her notable group exhibitions include The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024: silent apple in Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea (2024); Let’s See at ArtSpace @ HeluTrans, Singapore (2024); 1 at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2022); We Paint! at Palais de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (2022); Last Words at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2021); We Are Here at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. (2021); Tiger Orchid presented at Art Basel OVR: Miami Beach (2020); Roppongi Crossing: Connexion at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2019); and Aichi Triennale: Taming Y/Our Passion in Nagoya, Japan (2019); Kei Imazu is the finalist of Prix Jean-François Prat in 2020. Imazu’s works are part of the public collections of various institutions in Japan, among them are MUSEUM HAUS KASUYA in Kanagawa as well as Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Taguchi Art Collection, and OKETA COLLECTION in Tokyo. Her works are also part of the public collections of San San Jose Museum of Art, California, U.S.A. and X Museum, Beijing, China. Kei Imazu will present her first mid-career survey in the forthcoming solo exhibition Tanah Air at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2025).
Kei Imazu is a close collaborator of Bagus Pandega. Their collaborative work has been presented at various international group exhibitions, including Bangkok Art Biennale: Nurture Gaia in Bangkok, Thailand (2024); WAGIWAGI at documenta fifteen, Hübner areal, Kassel, Germany (2022); Frieze Seoul at Coex, Seoul, South Korea (2022); and Declaring Distance: Bandung — Leiden at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia (2022).
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