원지   W O N   J Y 

30 juni -1 aug 2026​​

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Won Jy (b. 1990 in South Korea, living in Nîmes, France) is invited by Teatergalleriet to our first international artist residency. Jy will be working from a studio at Ateljéhuset Pukeberg and site-specifically in Kalmar and Småland during May and June. The residency will conclude with his solo exhibition at Teatergalleriet, which is also part of the Smålandtriennale 2026.

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Won Jy works primarily with readymades, such as dumped objects which are considered by others as waste or nuisances, and installations. He returns to questions about how strangers are welcomed or dismissed in a given territory, and he has explored and used, among other things, pigeon phobia as a metaphor for how places and architecture can be welcoming or excluding, often based on completely arbitrary decisions. Jy's work is colored by subtle humor, and he combines complex, serious questions with lighthearted and poetic forms.

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During his residency in Sweden, he will research the layered histories of exclusion that have shaped Kalmar's urban fabric from the 17th to the 19th century. At the center of this inquiry stands Kalmar Prison — a site where the spatial logic of punishment and the spatial logic of care converge, both enacting exclusion through the same gesture: to push beyond the wall.

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View previous exhbitons by Won Jy here.

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The residency is made possible by a grant from IASPIS.

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Utställningskalender Smålandstriennalen : konstkartan.se