Musquiqui Chihying

"Art Spectrum 2026" at Hoam Museum of Art

Musquiqui Chihying's The Recasting (2025) is on view at the Hoam Museum of Art, as part of the group exhibition Art Spectrum 2026: ARoomWhereEveryRadiolsTunedtoDifferentStations co-curated by Jeon Hyo-kyung, Kwak Jun-young and Hugo Vitrani. 

 

Art Spectrum 2026: ARoomWhereEveryRadiolsTunedtoDifferentStations

Exhibition period: 1 September  –  27 December 2026

Venue: Hoam Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, 17021, Korea

 

Art Spectrum cultivates international collaboration while expanding its scope to artists across Asia; in 2026, it will be presented at the Hoam Museum of Art for the first time, co-curated in collaboration with Palais de Tokyo. Refusing a single unifying voice, this edition places distinct practices in close proximity, bringing together artists and collectives across visual art, film, performance, architecture, design, music, fashion, and publishing to consider how resonance can emerge without hardening into a fixed identity. It imagines an undivided room of overlapping frequencies, where signals cross, leak, and mutate, tracing unforeseen trajectories.

 

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The Recasting continues Chihying’s sustained inquiry into museums and technologies of collection. Focusing on the Bo’ai Tripod and its three major transformations, the work reflects on how the mobility and metamorphosis of objects echo broader socio-political contexts. The installation takes the form of a “museum theatre” composed of three fractured, vitrine-like sound-and-light structures. These vitrines, hollow and broken, do not contain material artefacts but instead stage a fragmented narrative—serving as temporal vessels that traverse history and articulate elusive meanings that resist taxonomic classification.
 
 The work draws inspiration from the 1929 essay Phantasmagoria by British art critic Francis Ayscough, in which the author imagines East Asian objects housed in European museums coming to life after nightfall, whispering their origins and anxieties to one another—a literary forerunner to the contemporary Night at the Museum trope. Yet unlike the displaced and pristine relics depicted in Phantasmagoria—sacred vessels and mythic beasts that retain their original forms while exiled in foreign institutions—The Recasting conjures an object whose form has never stabilised. 

 

Images: Musquiqui Chihying, The Recasting (2025), 2026 Art Spectrum, ARoomWhereEveryRadioIsTunedtoDifferentStations, Hoam Museum of Art, 2026 (installation view). Photography by Yeonje Kim.

 

Text courtesy of the artist.

 

Learn more --

https://www.leeumhoam.org/hoam/exhibition/96

August 25, 2026
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