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Bulgogi

The exhibition ‘Bulgogi’, commissioned by the Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, consisted of a series of small, multi-sided and multi-panelled, pavilions. The inside of each pavilion was adorned with a series of framed images of anonymous Angelinos of Korean ancestry. I appropriated the term ‘bulgogi’ – referring to a traditional Korean dish of marinated, barbecued beef – as a metaphor for Korean immigration and cultural assimilation in Los Angeles. Using ‘Bulgogi’ as a metaphor I have developed an on-going spatial inquiry into notions of the inside and outside, applied not only to disciplines of art and design and physical space but also to a community. The underlining dynamic of the work was located in the way the pavilions managed to appear both purely formal when experienced from the outside and yet laced with narrative on the inside. The exhibition received both mainstream and scholarly critical attention, including: David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, (30th July 2010); Brooke Hodge, ‘Jorge Pardo’s Bulgogi’, New York Times, (30th July 2010); and Jan Tumlir, ‘Bulgogi’, Artforum, (October, 2010).