Tarek Atoui, The Elemental Set, 2019-2023, installation view, commissioned by the 14th Gwangju Biennale, supported by Institut français. Courtesy of the artist and Gwangju Biennale Foundation. Photo: glimworkers.
On the occasion of the 14th Gwangju Biennale, Tarek Atoui will present the installation The Elemental Set (2022).
Since his visit to Gwangju in 2019, Tarek Atoui has extended invitations to instruments makers, artists and craftsmen from Gwangju and its surroundings to work with him on original ideas that revisit traditions of drum, onggi, celadon and paper making in Korea.
This led him to developing an ensemble of instruments, sound objects and compositional ideas inspired by these traditions and to thinking ways of playing those that rely on water, fire and earth and their cycles of transformation—notions at the core of traditional Korean music and its philosophy.
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