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“We understand the makeshift as an intuitive, responsive methodology. By observing what is available, it’s possible to arrive at recombinant solutions that answer necessity’s call via improvisation. The specificity of the makeshift gets us thinking about the complexity of our overly industrialized and technologized lives, where material excess and precarity mingle. Many relatives among our grandparents’ generation survived periods of war and rationing that motivated the creative repurposing of whatever happened to be at hand to improve domestic life. This has surely influenced what we do, which is partly to ask how we can work with what is here to reflect how things are.” pp. 151 HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander is a collaborative duo currently based in Punamu’kwati’jk/Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Through the threading together of given and family names, their practice wrestles with the notion of individual authorship and addresses the constructedness of identity. Their work has been presented in numerous exhibition contexts, including Mercer Union (Toronto), Franz Kaka (Toronto), Daniel Faria (Toronto), the Transmedia Art Festival (Chilgok-gun), Kunstverein Toronto (Toronto), The Real DMZ Project (Paju), Galerie SAW (Ottawa), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Toronto), Trilobite et le Pneu (Montréal), Jack Barrett Gallery (New York), and The Small Arms Inspection Building (Mississauga). Their work is represented by Franz Kaka, and they teach at NSCAD University in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Image courtesy of  @know_no_kwon, @pawl_khjander, and @franzkaka. This week, we’re introducing the artists featured in Liminal Figures, an anthology of interviews with fifteen diasporic Korean artists, co-published by @gyopo.us and @the_floorplan. Please join us at our launch event in LA on 6/27, and pre-order the book at the link in bio. 📫
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I’ve spent time in front of an overwhelming amount of good work already this year. Here is a tiny sampling. More to come.
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what’s behind how is where you are 🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭🧭 Our exhibition @mercerunion closes this Saturday with a performance event by Germaine Liu + the Imaginary Percussion Ensemble - 5pm 17 January - registration required! 🥁🛢️📦📫📮🎵🪨🏓🪩🔮🪇
 Many thanks: @canada.council @partnersinartcanada @abolishedbauble @wangtheresaa @franzkaka
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Franz Kaka’s 2025 year in review: 1. The Shape of a City Lotus L. Kang, HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, Tony Romano, Elif Saydam, Matthew Schrader, Alex Turgeon, Alix Vernet January 9-February 8, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 2. Elif Saydam RAUS February 14-March 15, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 3. Azadeh Elmizadeh Timekeepers March 22-April 19, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 4. Miart (Milan, IT) Jennifer Carvalho April 4-6, 2025 📸 @graysc.de 5. Plural (Montréal, CA) Jennifer Carvalho, Azadeh Elmizadeh, Lotus L. Kang, HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, Anne Low, Karice Mitchell, Tony Romano, Fran Williams April 11-13, 2025 📸 @williamsabourin_ 6. Opening night of Lotus L. Kang, Already at 52 Walker, New York, US 📸 @hannahurhannahur 7. Nabil Azab Thank you for this beautiful world April 25-May 24, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 8. NADA New York Michael Thompson & Katie Lyle May 7-11, 2025 📸 @tobinwasikphoto 9. Azadeh Elmizadeh & Nasrin Himada in conversation at Art Metropole May 24, 2025 📸 @wendywhiteway 10. Fran Williams Heartbreaks May 30-June 28, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 11. Art Basel Elif Saydam June 19-22, 2025 📸 @graysc.de 12. Opening day or Art Basel 📸 @wendywhiteway 13. Alison Yip creative background July 5-August 2, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 14. Zoe Koke tide September 13-October 25, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 15. Dinner for HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander opening at Mercer Union, Toronto, CA 📸 @jenniferannecar 16. Frieze London Anne Low October 15-19, 2025 📸 @graysc.de 17. Art Toronto Karice Mitchell October 24-26, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 18. Alice Gong Xiaowen Heavy Fog November 7-December 20 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 19. Art Basel Miami Beach Azadeh Elmizadeh December 5-7, 2025 📸 @lfdocumentation 20. Happy new year from Franz Kaka! 📸 @lauracfindlay See you in 2026 🎆🥂🎈✨
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such a privilege to spend the week teaching in @nscaduniversity Hallifax this week, I am totally blown away by the talent, intelligence, and commitment of all the students that took part. We held a showing at the Treaty gallery on the final day, so much left to think about. thanks Annalise Proder for organising, and huge thanks to my dear friends, comrades and colleagues Paul Kajander and Haeahn Kwon for this unforgettable experience Hallifax ❤️💙💜
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HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander’s exhibition at Mercer Union is up until January 17.  When I visited, I noticed the parallels between the exhibition’s themes and the book, I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. I felt like the novel’s protagonist: unsure about what each incongruous detail meant, but with the desire to seek out a meaning that remained slightly outside of my reach. The searching becomes the point. There was a distinct split between the world outside the doors of Mercer Union and what I was experiencing inside. The unrelenting beats of the metronome were the only way I could keep time, which I quickly lost: I might have spent 14 minutes in the room or 45.  @mercerunion @know_no_kwon @pawl_khjander
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The lovely @know_no_kwon and @pawl_khjander at their exhibition 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙄𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝘼𝙧𝙚 at @mercerunion.
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Looking at art @know_no_kwon @pawl_khjander @mercerunion
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My Little Shit Hole at the End of Eternity An ex-lover of mine once gushed about the bathroom of a casino. Can you believe they had TVs over the urinals? he exclaimed. I couldn’t help but feed off his shock and excitement. How beautiful, how perverse. When I first saw (artist duo) HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander’s show at Mercer Union through an Instagram story, I was so goddamn jealous. I tapped my way through the dirty, glamorous toilet art. When I finally managed to get over my base layer of envy, I dragged my feet to see the show in person. Honestly, this show is hot shit. The details of each piece are impeccable. Every corner was cared for. No hole left unfilled. It was loud and overstimulating, like a Gen X baby realizing they have to use AI for their day job. Going to the bathroom represents both primal pleasure and pain. Yet even this great equalizer is not free from distraction today. The ball drops. A sneaky child ritualistically hides their toy behind the ladder to hell. Smarty, sparkly. Warm glow of a sun that has lived too long. Plop. There goes the end of history. I highly recommend going to see this show. I also suggest someone pay both artists large sums of money so they can change the course of art in Toronto. @mercerunion @know_no_kwon @pawl_khjander
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Mercer Union presents "How Is Where You Are", the first institutional solo exhibition by the Canadian artist duo HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, up until January 17. HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander is a collaboration between artists HaeAhn Woo Kwon (b. 1985, Daegu, KR) and Paul Kajander (b. 1980, Vancouver, CA). Together, they work to complicate the social construct of identity and the notion of individual authorship. The artists’ sculptural and installation practice often begins with found objects, which the artists reconfigure, repurpose, and reorient to become nuanced sculptural assemblages. Informed by the concept of the “makeshift,” the artists’ process prioritizes improvisation, using available materials as a salve for the paradox between material abundance and precarity in contemporary life. For "How Is Where You Are", the artists present a suite of new sculptures spanning a diverse array of media, including ceramic, porcelain, resin, and textile, while introducing synchronized multi-channel video and sound into their practice for the first time. These new works engage with the inherited systems that quietly organize our lives within a globalized world, from standardized domestic appliances, telecommunications tools, and arbitrarily drawn national borders. By collapsing the scale of the home, the corporate, and the nation-state, HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander produces a space of deliberate disorientation.
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a week of visiting🔋
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Our show @mercerunion opens Friday October 17 at 7pm. Truly grateful to @wangtheresaa for commissioning this new body of work and for so thoughtfully shepherding us along the way in making this exhibition. 💖 There are many ppl we have to thank over the coming months, but we’ll start by acknowledging the 💕📡 profoundly attuned 💕📡 text by @abolishedbauble (available in print from the gallery) and phenomenal exhibition support from @adotmdot 🔎and the super crew 💪🏼 @laynemarley 🧶@vero.suna 📐 @vanessa.b.rieger 💞 If you’re in Toronto we hope you can join us Friday night 🤗
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