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A memory of a singular, triumphant spirit for our time

ews of the passing of the extraordinary curator and intellect Okwui Enwezor, who greatly impacted people all over the world, found me during preparations for the Korea Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and gave me a great sense of loss. “Who canonized the formation of history? And whose bodies are yet to be written about as part of that history?” These are the questions that I brought to the Korea Pavilion this year, and they absolutely owe themselves to exceptional frontiers established by Enwezor, a curator, poet,

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