Willing to be Vulnerable

Title of ArtworkWilling to be Vulnerable
Year of Origin2016 - 2015
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    Heavy-duty fabric, metalized film, transparent film, polyurethane ink, fog machine, LED lighting, electronic wiring
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2018 - 2020ExhibitionsPublic DeliveryLink
2016ExhibitionsSydney20th Biennale of SydneyLink
2016VimeoSydney20th Biennale of SydneyLink
2016ExhibitionsSydney20th Biennale of SydneyLink


Entering the exhibition, you first have to pick your way through Korean artist Lee Bul’s installation Willing To Be Vulnerable (2015–16), which projects a future that is simultaneously heroic and defeated. Striped canvases depicting headless figures on unicycles hang from the ceiling and collapse in heaps around the site, like the scene of an apocalyptic circus. In these end times, a silver airship and blinking hot-air balloon, however, are still defiantly afloat. 

https://artreview.com/summer-2016-review-sydney-biennale/ (10.11.2020)

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