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And They Make Us Poor,
For Our Only Wealth Is Seeing


October 12–December 27, 2024

episode gallery
213 Franklin Street Brooklyn NY 11222

Jean Chung, Kyoung eun Kang, Kakyoung Lee, sooim lee, Jung Eun Song, Kazumi Tanaka, Naho Taruishi, Jayoung Yoon

And They Make Us Poor, For Our Only Wealth Is Seeing, a group exhibition that explores the evolving relationship between humans and their environments as natural landscapes transform under the pressures of climate change and urbanization. Borrowing its title from a line of poetry by Fernando Pessoa, the exhibition centers on solastalgia—the distress and sense of displacement experienced when one’s familiar environment is irrevocably altered. Through this lens, the exhibition delves into the emotional and psychological impacts of these changes, exploring how shifting perspectives toward the natural world evoke feelings of grief, dislocation, and adaptation.









Visionary Catalysts:
Wolhee Choe and the Empowerment of Korean Identity


September 20 -  October 26, 2024

AHL Foundation Gallery
2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd., #C1, New York, NY 10030

Featured Artists: Sung Ho Choi, Sook Jin Jo, Eunmo Jung, Hyangan Kim, Jung Hyung Kim, Mikyung Kim, Myong Hi Kim, Po Kim, Tchah Sup Kim, Whanki Kim, Woong Kim, Wonsook Kim, Yeong Gill Kim, Sang Nam Lee, sooim lee, Choong Sup Lim, Byoung Ok Min, Nam June Paik, Yong Jin Han.

The exhibition focuses on the archive of Wolhee Choe (1937.8.20 – 2013.5.27), a pioneering figure in the fields of English literature, translation, and cultural advocacy. Choe’s truthful contributions to Korean art and culture in the United States were instrumental in fostering a deeper understanding of Korean identity among diverse audiences. Her archives, which were generously donated to the Archive of Korean Artists in America (AKAA) by her husband, Robert Everett Hawks (1943- 2020), in 2014, include a remarkable collection of personal records, photographs, letters, writings, her doctoral dissertation, and manuscripts for her publications. This collection highlights Choe’s extensive cultural role and her interactions with artists and intellectuals of the time, as well as her influence in empowering Korean-American artists and communities.



From This Blanket


Saturday, May 4, 2024
1:30 PM

Print Center New York
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY, 10011 United States

In this collaborative performance inspired by Marie Watt's sculpture Blanket Stories: Great Grandmother, Pandemic, Daybreak (2021), Kyoung eun Kang and sooim lee will explore cultural heritage, memory, and individual and collective experiences. Kang and Lee—participants in the curatorial project The Faraway Nearby—will use pitch, breath, movement, and silence to weave a narrative that resonates with themes of family, care, and resilience. Organized by Jiyeon Paik.








The Faraway Nearby


May–September, 2024

Participating in The Faraway Nearby program from May to September 2024, I am pleased to announce my collaboration with Xinyi Liu for insightful discussions and collaborative initiatives.