Exhibition - Na Mira: Subrosa

Sunday, Jun 11, 2023 from 11:00am to 4:00pm
Museum Of Contemporary Art
265 South Church Avenue
520-624-5019

Subrosa is the first museum solo exhibition by Na Mira which expands on a cumulative body of work by the artist that imagines scenes from White Dust From Mongolia, an unfinished film by the late artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Implementing an experimental approach to research and material production, Mira engages Cha’s archive to explore memory, diaspora, non-linear time, and electromagnetic frequencies. 

The exhibition features two corresponding installations: TETRAPHOBIA (2022), a two-channel 16mm film installation, and a new film commissioned by MOCA for Subrosa. Arranged in film cells in the shape of an unfolded cube, the projects incorporate mirrors that double, reverse, and refract the moving images and text generated from Mira’s automatic writing. Black and white scenes feature a historic cinema, a fenced parking lot, and a white cube within an atmosphere of red light and radio sound. Crossing the dimensions of perception, narratives shudder and multiply, colliding past and present. Channeling Cha, Mira traces the violence of being outside this world and the ecstasy of making another.

Na Mira: Subrosa is organized by Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator.

This exhibition is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Park View / Paul Soto, and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by The Downtown Clifton Hotel and Exo Coffee Co.

About the artist:

Na Mira (b. 1982) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions, screenings and performances have been presented at Whitney Biennial 2022, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kitchen, and Participant Inc., New York; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; Seoul Museum of Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, amongst others. Upcoming presentations include Art Sonje Center, Seoul and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Mira graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of California Los Angeles and her works are in the public collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center. Wendy’s Subway recently published the first collection of Mira’s writing.

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