Installation view of 《Recording Bodies, Restoring Testimony》. Photo: Solji Kim © d/p
d/p presents its first exhibition of 2026, 《Recording Bodies, Restoring Testimony》, on view through May 23. The exhibition
originated from “Recording Bodies,” a collective initiated in spring 2025 by
curator Solji Kim and participating artists Bora Kim, Sunhee Bae, Oro Minkyung,
and Hee Zoo, who have been reading and writing together.
Working across different disciplines, the five women artists
have shared emotions, memories, and traces of speech that pass through the
body, continuing their meetings across various sites including their homes and
studios, performance venues and exhibition spaces, forests, the War and Women's
Human Rights Museum, and online platforms.
They began by reading together a testimonial novel by Kim Soom
on the issue of the Japanese military “sexual slavery,” and from there, their
individual interests and questions gradually branched out in different
directions.
Installation view of 《Recording Bodies, Restoring Testimony》. Photo: Solji Kim © d/p
《Recording
Bodies, Restoring Testimony》 is
an exhibition that reflects, through this shared duration, on testimony and
utterance, the performativity of the body, and the question of the archive. It
considers how traces of memory and sensation inscribed in the body might be
voiced again, and how such acts of articulation are transmitted into the future
through forms such as testimony, fiction, research, and documentation.
At the same time, it asks whether we, as those who encounter
these narratives, can become another kind of “recording body”—one that receives
the words and sensations of others and carries them forward through our own
language and embodied presence.
Installation view of 《Recording Bodies, Restoring Testimony》. Photo: Solji Kim © d/p
The exhibition features a sound installation by Oro Minkyung, a
text-based book work by Bora Kim, and drawings, writing, and video by Sunhee
Bae. Throughout the exhibition period, a total of eleven programs will take
place, including a body workshop by Hee Zoo, a theatrical performance by Bae, a
zine workshop by Bora Kim and Solji Kim, and Oro Minkyung’s participatory sound
performance Singing Together, in which audiences read aloud
collectively.
Visitors are invited to create their own Recording Zine
at a “self-recording desk” within the exhibition space and to leave their
stories on a mobile installation. After the exhibition, these records will be
compiled into another Recording Zine that documents the
exhibition process itself. Rather than presenting a finished outcome, the
exhibition seeks to function as a space of process—one that weaves together
shared time, stories, and bodies.
Participating Artists: Bora Kim, Sunhee Bae,
Oro Minkyung, Hee Zoo
