Outrunning Fate | National Extinction exhibition includes two bodies of work by C. Ryu produced from military and medical image capture, reflecting on the consequences of historical, migrational, and gendered erasure that has affected the complex fates of those who breathe today. Ryu asks how do we outrun our fates that are so tied to colonialism, to capitalism, to reproduction?
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Outrunning Fate | National Extinction
About the Artist
C. Ryu (formerly known as Caroline Yoo) is an interdisciplinary artist who also responds to the titles of bad historian, spiral storyteller, and avid ghosts believer. Ryu uses translation as a tool to map forgotten histories – to reveal psychological shadows haunting the Korean diaspora – and performs contemporary translations of rituals for the living. Tracing the edges of the hidden and silenced perspectives of the past to inform the personal and political of the present, C. visualizes narratives utilizing multiple voices in tension with each other to highlight the complicated structures of empire and power while unraveling imperial illusions through geopolitical poetry. Ryu’s practice spans across mediums of performance, social practice, intimate gatherings, and video installations often conflating documentary and science fiction to showcase the warped nature of emotional time in migration storytelling.
C. Ryu is a co-founder and co-leader of Hwa Records and JADED (named 2022 People of the Year by the Pittsburgh City Paper). Ryu has performed, exhibited, and culturally produced at Carnegie Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco; McDonough Museum of Art; University of Southern California; LA Art Show; Kelly Strayhorn Theater; and more. Ryu graduated Carnegie Mellon University with a MFA in Art, Washington University in St. Louis with a BFA in Studio Art, and has taught as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Carlow University.
Visit C. Ryu’s website.