b-side is pleased to announce our first project with visual research band ikkibawiKrrr, with a presentation of the Seoul-based collective’s multimedia installation Seaweed Story (2022).
Seaweed Story (2022) focuses on the haenyeo, or “sea women” divers who harvest marine products—including the edible seaweed Ecklonia cava, another source of explosive components, along with herbal remedies—from the surrounding waters. Alongside an installation of “seaweed sculptures”, a single-channel video documents the Jeju Arirang sung by a haenyeo choir based in Hado, a village on Jeju Island, narrating their everyday lives and their consolations to the wounded island. They read the wind and feel the waters, and pass on the knowledge of adapting to the ocean.
ikkibawiKrrr is a visual research band founded in 2021 with members Gyeol Ko, Jungwon Kim, and Jieun Cho. In Korean, ikkibawi means “moss-rock”, and krrr is an onomatopoeic word. Mosses live in the thin boundary between air and soil, adapt to their surroundings despite their tiny bodies, and expand their world along other worlds. Incorporating the survival tactics of moss into their projects and attitudes, the collective hopes to circulate its practice beyond individual projects and extend the boundary layer between life and art.
ikkibawiKrrr
Seaweed Story
Opening Reception (by invitation)
Saturday, 27 September 2025
18:00 WIB
By Appointment
1 October - 9 November 2025
b-side
Pasar Antik 9-10
Jalan Surabaya
Jakarta 10310
ikkibawiKrrr is a visual research band founded in 2021 with members Gyeol Ko, Jungwon Kim, andJieun Cho. In Korean, ikkibawi means “moss-rock”, and krrr is an onomatopoeic word. Mosses livein the thin boundary between air and soil, adapt to their surroundings despite their tiny bodies, andexpand their world along other worlds. Incorporating the survival tactics of moss into their projectsand attitudes, the collective hopes to circulate its practice beyond individual projects and extend theboundary layer between life and art.
ikkibawiKrrr’s solo exhibitions include Who Forgot the Village(Aranya Art Center, Beijing, 2025)and ikkibawiKrrr: Rocks Living in Rewind (Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2024-5). Major exhibitions by ikkibawiKrrr include the Aichi Triennale: A Time Between Ashes and Roses (Aichi, Japan, 2025), Singapore Biennale 2025: Pure Intention (Singapore, 2025), 14th Gwangju Biennale: Soft and Weaklike Water (Gwangju, 2023), documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany, 2022), Running Underground (ElephantSpace, Seoul, 2022), and Resbakan: Solidarity Event Lumbung FILM (UP Film Institute, University ofthe Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 2022), among others.