Glitter Mani Festo exhibition continues Young Joon Kwak’s queer interrogation of how bodies are represented in society and art history. Jennifer Doyle’s accompanying text attends to the social, material, and sensory dimensions of the works on view.
Kwak’s sculptures are inherently social: produced in collaboration with her community and designed to invite participation and connection. Their forms evoke the many meanings of a circle, as group, halo, orbit, enclosure, and embrace. Created through invert-casting, the works emerge from the negative spaces formed as bodies are pressed together and held. Recording gestures of touch, extension, and entanglement, the sculptures are fragmented and open, allowing viewers to encounter them from what feels like the inside.
