Program
Won Jy (b. 1990 in South Korea, living in Nîmes, France) has been invited by the Theatre Gallery to the gallery's first international residency. Jy will work in a studio at Ateljéhuset Pukeberg and site-specifically in Kalmar during May and June. The residency will conclude with a solo exhibition at the Theatre Gallery in Kalmar.
Won Jy works primarily with ready-mades, such as dumped objects, which are considered by others as waste or nuisances, and installations. He returns to questions about how strangers are welcomed or dismissed in a given territory and he has explored and used pigeon phobia as a metaphor for how places and architecture can be welcoming or excluding, often based on completely arbitrary decisions. Jy's work is colored by subtle humor and he combines complex, serious issues with light-hearted and poetic forms.
The artist residency is made possible through a collaborative grant from IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Council's international program for image and form.
The Glass Factory in Boda is sponsoring Won Jy's work in glass during the residency.