N/A present a solo show of work by Seoul-based artist Muyeong Kim. Kim's practice is steeped in the seduction and discipline of theatre. His films and photographic works stage slippery relationships between observer and observed, where affectations of desire, compulsion, guilt and boredom are worn like heavy, opulent costumes. Servant School is Kim’s study of willed passivity and its violent ruptures.
The exhibition’s title comes from the Quay Brothers film Institute Benjamenta – a film Kim once described as so perfect that he almost didn’t want anyone else to see it. In this collection of recent works, a similar desire for control over the eyes of others plays out in carefully choreographed environments and image-making techniques.
