Gala Porras-Kim will be participating in a collective show curated by Hyunjin Kim at Kadist San Francisco.
"Frequencies of Tradition" centers on tradition as a space of contestation. Tradition is a significant part of daily lives in Asia, connecting generations and reverberating as a living archive of cultures across time. Tradition also retains and upholds patriarchy, authoritarianism, and obsolete customs.
The works in the exhibition upend conventional notions of tradition and examine how regional modernization entangles with the emergence of tradition and where the violence of social conventions, nationalism, and the impact of such histories on the everyday manifest.