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DOUBLE BARBERSHOP POLES
2011 International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale
Incheon, Korea
October 1 - 30, 2011
From the exhibition catalogue:
"Based in her complicit and complicated relationship with Korea, Double Barbershop Poles is part instigation, part exorcism, and part love-letter to Korea. Curreri builds upon the time she spent on Yongsan Military Base in Seoul several years ago and presents an investigation of the use of twin barbershop poles surrounding the base. The poles, when in pairs, signal that sexual services are on offer - services heavily steeped in economies of military and power. In her installation, the artist distills the notions and implications of this visual icon to capture the shifting of her own identity. The artist's rescreening of KBS's recently aired and cancelled lesbian Korean TV drama, "Daughters of Club Bilitis," is also a personal extension of this shift. The image of the barbershop poles give-way to that of the pink triangle which acts as an invitation to contribute to a discussion about queer (in)visibility in Korea. Acts such as these, driven by exposure and intimacy, are at the core of the artist's practice alongside the duality of identity and sexuality."
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Installation view (L-R): Double, two-channel video, looped; Double Barbershop Poles (Masked, Unmasked, and Askew), screenprinted triptych on paper, 30x22" each, edition of five; and Identity and Privilege Card, laminated, two-sided, digital print, 13x20"
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Installation view (opposite wall): Rescreening of KBS's Cancelled "Daughters of Club Bilitis", video, 60' loop; Invitation, printed paper invitations to discuss queer (in)visibility for forthcoming small book; and Jumprope (Bending), plastic, string, and ceramic hook, 2011.
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Detail of Invitation and Jumprope (Bending)
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Still frame from Rescreening of KBS's Cancelled "Daughters of Club Bilitis"
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