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  • Young Joon Kwak, Burn Slow, 2015, HD video, color, sound, 8 minutes 20 seconds.

    Young Joon Kwak, Burn Slow, 2015, HD video, color, sound, 8 minutes 20 seconds.

    Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) and Young Joon Kwak

    Arko Art Center

    Raise a hat to curator Angela Jeeyoung Chun for taking on not one but two charged topics in this heartening exhibition—at a government-affiliated institution, no less—which was effectively a pair of solo shows. In one, South Korean-born Dutch artist Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) delivered an unflinching look at coerced transnational adoptions. In the other, Korean American Young Joon Kwak staged a queer fantasia, a panegyric to hybrid identities. Titled “All About Love,” after the 1999 bell hooks book, the two-person exhibition amounted to a master class in intimacy and trust.

    Chang

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