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Flyer designed by Humberto Ochoa |
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Join us at Bungee Space to celebrate the launch of left left left right left with an evening of conversation between Gi (Ginny) Huo and Lumi Tan, presented by Small Editions. The discussion will begin with a screening of a short film and Huo’s research for this project, which involved returning to her birthplace in Hawai‘i after 20 years. Led by Tan, who recently co-curated Huo’s work in an exhibition at DOOSAN Gallery in Seoul, they will then dive into the book, covering Huo’s interest in the connection between spiders, balloons, reconnaissance, camouflage techniques, and the ways in which they intertwine with her own family’s history. |
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left left left right left is an artists’ book in the form of a double-sided map. One side of the map features a text written by Huo; the other features pixelated aerial photographs of Lā‘ie, Hawai‘i, the artist’s birthplace, along with 16mm stills from a film made on O‘ahu in 2025. The book takes its title from a common U.S. military chant used to synchronize soldiers during a march. This cadence is repeated throughout the text, tying together a visual essay that touches on themes of migration, military, and morality. |
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This book exists in two editions: one in English (left left left right left), and one in Korean (왼발 왼발 왼발 오른발 왼발). The English version plays with the multiple meanings of “left” and “right” in relation to military coordinates (moving left and right), belief systems (edicts on good/bad/right/wrong), and patterns of immigration (the things we leave behind). The Korean version, translated by Michelle Ho, has been adapted to work around the untranslatability of the words’ multiple meanings in English. |
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Photos by Hiroki Irie |
left left left right left/왼발 왼발 왼발 오른발 왼발
Gi (Ginny) Huo/허지은, 2026
11x17cm (closed), 60.4 x 48.4cm (open)1 sheetTrifold MapK/K Offset PrintedCover: Gmund Matt #88, 350gsm, 1-color screenprintingInterior: Neo Star Art, 80gsm and Nantucket Gloss, 80#T |
Edition of 250 (English), Edition of 250 (Korean)Designed by Humberto OchoaTranslated by Michelle HoPrinted in New York and Seoul |
ABOUT
Gi (Ginny) Huo is an artist and educator thinking on the legacies of religious systems and its geopolitical impact. Huo works across sculpture, video, artists’ books, drawing, photography, and printmaking.
Huo has exhibited at Hesse Flatow Gallery, DOOSAN Gallery (Seoul), Princeton University, Miriam Gallery, SK Gallery, CANADA Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, Baxter St CCNY, Franconia Sculpture Park and The Smithsonian Archives of American Art. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships including a MacDowell Fellowship, ISCP Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency, Princeton Arts Fellowship, Here and There THAT Residency, Center for Photography - Woodstock, Robert Blackburn Printshop SIP Fellowship, Smack Mellon, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
left left left right left is Huo’s fourth collaboration with Small Editions.
Website: https://ginnyhuo.com/
Lumi Tan is an independent curator and writer based in New York City, specializing in interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances. In 2025, she co-curated with Hyejung Jang sent in, spun, found, a two-person exhibition by Gi (Ginny) Huo and Yeonsa Cha at DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul.
She has been the curator of the Focus section of Frieze New York since 2024, and is the 2026 Converge45 city-wide exhibition in Portland, Oregon. Other recent projects include We Exist in the Ambivalence of those Motherfuckers at Performance Space New York, and Luna Luna, Los Angeles/New York. From 2010-2022, Tan was Senior Curator at The Kitchen, New York, where she commissioned and produced over 100 exhibitions, performances, and live programs with artists across disciplines and generations.