Camilla Alberti's Monsters Enchant Seoul Children at Hyundai MOKA
Camilla Alberti, an Italian artist born in Milan in 1994, showcases 'The Spell of Monsters' at the Hyundai Museum of Kids' Book & Art (MOKA) in Seoul, open until September 29, 2024. Curated by Sofia Baldi Pighi, this exhibition reinterprets pieces from the 2023 Gwangju Biennale. It includes workshops for forty children aged 6 to 11, divided into four stages: observation, hands-on construction, narrative development, and public presentation. The children's artworks will be displayed alongside Alberti's sculptures in a child-focused installation. Her artistic approach involves creating assemblages of found objects on plaster-bandage frameworks, drawing inspiration from Donna Haraway's writings. The initiative addresses themes such as climate change and hybridization, utilizing Korean dokkaebi folklore as a connecting element.
Key facts
- Camilla Alberti's 'The Spell of Monsters' at Hyundai Museum of Kids' Book & Art in Seoul until September 29, 2024.
- Curated by Sofia Baldi Pighi, recontextualizing works from the 2023 Gwangju Biennale Italian Pavilion.
- Forty children aged 6-11 participated in workshops creating monsters alongside Alberti's sculptures.
- Workshops used four phases: observation, construction with three stations, narrative creation, and public presentation.
- Children's monsters are displayed in a child-centric installation challenging adult perspectives.
- Alberti's sculptures use found objects on plaster-bandage skeletons, cleaned by wasps, and incorporate living lichens.
- Project uses Korean dokkaebi folklore to address climate change, interspecies relations, and hybridization.
- Influenced by Donna Haraway's writings on hybridity as survival strategy.
Entities
Artists
- Camilla Alberti
- Sofia Baldi Pighi
- Valentina Buzzi
- Donna Haraway
Institutions
- Hyundai Museum of Kids' Book & Art
- Gwangju Biennale
- Italian Pavilion
- Artribune
- Frieze Seoul
Locations
- Seoul
- South Korea
- Milan
- Italy
- Gwangju