DOOSAN Gallery Seoul presents Private Song I, an exhibition organized by Honggyun Mok the winner of Curatorial Open Call, from July 22nd to August 19th, 2020. DOOSAN Gallery has supported three new curators every year through DOOSAN Curator Workshop Program since 2011.

Private Song I was inspired by the scandalous incidents that took place in Venice Biennale and Documenta 14 in 2017, where two artistic directors in each of the events included their partners in the programs and exhibitions. Their actions caused quite a stir in the public as to how their deeds should be read, and Mok began to contemplate on the ways of refraining from personal relationships of the curator intervening in the exhibition.

This exhibition focuses on the process and method involved in the curator selecting the artists. Mok selected the 8 artists and 5 co-curators for this exhibition while eliminating her own intervention in the selection process as much as possible. First, 3 artists were selected through Curatron(curatroneq.com) program utilizing the algorithm’s deep learning, and second, the 2 co-curators were selected in the same manner as the artists. Third, additional 3 co-curators were selected through a blind open call held through DOOSAN gallery’s website and SNS. The 5 selected co-curators conducted their own research of the artists and shared their data, through which the other 5 artists were selected.

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Doosan Art Center