Exultant Divergence is a series of digital photo collages where the artist curates her own work alongside a wide range of works from contemporary art and art history. Inspired by Alpesh Kantilal Patel's deliberate 'productive failure' to write new transnational art histories as well as Édouard Glissant's notions on opacity, creolization, and rhizomatic identity, the artist intentionally confounds expectations and makes connections between her work to the works of various artists, including those who are not Korean, women, textile artists, or artists investigating identity through their work. The project argues for the multiple histories of art that are constantly in flux. It presents alternative ways of understanding the work to encourage viewers to make expansive recontextualizations of the work especially beyond the fixed and often essentializing lens of genealogy.
