Date: Friday, 29 January 2021 | Time: 6.00 p.m. IST

Location: Prism - InKo Centre's virtual gallery.

The exhibition will be on view until Sunday, 28 February 2021.

While physical doors of gallery spaces remain closed, virtual doors have opened. We are delighted to announce the opening of Prism, InKo Centre's virtual gallery, with A Porous Membrane, a specially commissioned virtual exhibition. Examining the body in time and space seems a very relevant preoccupation especially in these challenging times. The pandemic has raised all kinds of questions regarding physical boundaries and what we define as ‘normal’. In a boundless exchange of creative ideas, this exhibition brings together an Indian, Korean, and American curatorial, artistic and technical team to examine the body as a subject from multiple perspectives.

Yeonhee Cheong, Yoonshin Park, and Rina Yoon have frequently explored the body as a subject throughout their art careers. These artists create work in the interstices of their immigrant identities, culture, nature, and materiality. They initiate discussions upon these powerfully relevant issues using many materials including hanji, the fragile yet tough traditional Korean paper. Comprising a virtual walkthrough, interviews with the artists, an essay by the curator, and a comprehensive list of relevant artworks, the exhibition invites you on a journey of introspection, reflection, and interrogation.

Featuring artworks by:

Yeonhee Cheong, Madison, Wisconsin-based visual artist and educator.

Yoonshin Park, Chicago-based multimedia artist, curator, and educator.

Rina Yoon, visual artist and Professor of Fine Art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in Wisconsin.

Curated by: Nirmal Raja, interdisciplinary artist and curator living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Videography: Michel Cros, 3D Mapping: Josh Hintz.

Exhibition commissioned by: InKo Centre (The Indo-Korean Cultural and Information Centre), India.

Experience Design by: Studio RDA, Chennai, India.