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(Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings

Exhibition at ReflectSpace

2024-09-14 00:00:00 2024-09-14 23:59:00 America/Los_Angeles (Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings Glendale Central Library -

Saturday, September 14
All day

Add to Calendar 2024-09-14 00:00:00 2024-09-14 23:59:00 America/Los_Angeles (Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings (Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings is an exhibit that delves into the multi-generational afterlives of war and displacement and East-West Asian diasporic placemaking through a variety of mediums. Glendale Central Library -

(Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings is an exhibit that delves into the multi-generational afterlives of war and displacement and East-West Asian diasporic placemaking through a variety of mediums.

Glendale Library, Arts & Culture and ReflectSpace Gallery are pleased to present (Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings, an exhibition that delves into the multi-generational afterlives of war and displacement and East-West Asian diasporic placemaking through maps, sculptures, photography, archives, video, and layered materiality. It features artists from Los Angeles, Korea, and China.

Anchored by the work of Los Angeles-based artists Annette Miae Kim and Kyong Boon Oh, (Be)Longing asks us to consider how diasporic histories and spaces are created and narrated. Can you draw the borders of belonging? How do you make a map of a transnational and borderless community? How much do histories of displacement and war enter the contemporary narrative of a community? What is the relationship of a diasporic community to its indigenous lands and history? Kim and Oh have family in both South Korea and North Korea, and these fraught familial histories brings a personal and poignant dimension to their work. They query and challenge our preconceptions about diasporas and borders through maps, archives, sculpture, and tactile materiality.

The exhibition, curated by Monica Hye Yeon Jun and Ara & Anahid Oshagan, includes artworks by: Annette Miae Kim, Kyong Boon Oh, Sun Siran, Xia Yan, Gil Woong Kim, Donah Lee, and Jennifer Cheh. All seven artists in the exhibition grapple with their diasporic histories and present-day and strive to articulate their own sense of being and belonging.

(Be)Longing will be on view through September 22, 2024. For more information, ReflectSpace.org/post/Be-Longing


PARKING

3 Hours of free parking is available with library validation at the Marketplace parking structure across the street from the Harvard Street entrance of Glendale Central Library. Accessible parking is available on the east side of the building. View the Visit page for public transit information.

Glendale Central Library

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About the library

Established in 1906.

Library services in Glendale were first provided in 1906. The women of the Tuesday Afternoon Club, a social and philanthropic organization, raised money through a series of lectures to fund a library collection. The library opened in a renovated pool room at Third and E (Wilson and Everett) Streets with seventy books, soon supplemented by a State Traveling Library of fifty more, and served a population of 1,186.

In 1907, the City Trustees passed Ordinance 53 which established and supported a library which "...shall be forever free to the inhabitants and nonresident taxpayers of the City of Glendale..." The first year the library had 251 books, 165 registered patrons, and a budget of $248.88.

In 1913, a Carnegie grant of $12,500 made possible the construction of the main library at Kenwood and Fifth (Harvard Street). The building was completed and dedicated November 13, 1914.

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