The Gyeonggi Creation Center of the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation holds Unofficial Discoursers, the 2018 GCC Preview Exhibiti on, from April 26 (Thu) through June 24 (Sun) at the GCC Permanent Exhibition Space and Project Exhibition Space. The opening reception commences at 4 PM April 25 (Wed) at the GCC Art Café.

The Gyeonggi Creation Center has offered an international and local Residency Program of the largest scale in Korea, where artists from home and abroad have been supported in their creative work and study. This year, it has selected artists who have worked in various fields and expressed the world and life through their artwork with their original attitudes and perspectives on social, historical, and cultural issues, in order to provide the artists with more intensive residency programs according to the content. Unofficial Discoursers, the 2018 GCC Preview Exhibition, will be the venue for introducing 20 new resident artists in 2018 with their various works including paintings, videos, performances, photos, sound, installations, ceramic works, and sculptures.

Unofficial Discoursers, the title of the exhibition, refers to the subject which encompasses all of the actions that an artist takes in order to gain a fundamental individuality, a unique way of existence for an artwork, and all of the relationships resulting from those actions. Through these actions, an artist resists the interpretations based on social convention, looks for the dominant meanings of accidents, and creates uncommon places by ceaselessly creating gaps and rifts in order to not remain located in the existing system of knowledge or ideas. Along the way, the artists refuse to lose their inner distinction from others, readily befriending the solitude and loneliness so as to remain true to their individual particularity and infinitely varying possibilities. In the contemporary art field where dynamic changes are incessantly created, the artists who have maintained their own way to communicate and their own artistic practices pose meaningful questions through their works of art.

With the Preview Exhibition at the GCC as a starting point, the artists anticipate a strengthening of their individual identity as they take part in various exhibitions, mentoring, lectures, and workshops as part of the residency program, creating a network with each other and forming a creative and artistic synergy.