200 Years
Since 2017, a masked figure based on the Talchum (탈춤) has appeared in Surya Gied's work in various forms and media. Talchum is a musical dance theater from the Joseon Dynasty (1392 - 1910) of Korea that criticized the political grievances of the time. Surya Gied's masked figure plays a similar role; she functions as a witness to her own family conflicts as well as those of society as a whole.The figure also makes an appearance in Olevano Romano, Italy, where during her artist residency at Casa Baldi, the artist engages with the 19th-century landscape paintings created there, which were painted exclusively by male artists. In 200 Years, Surya Gied has her masked figure seek out the motifs of the old paintings in the present landscape and restages them as photographs. By appearing in the landscapes, the figure retrospectively becomes part of history,which can be read as a feminist commentary on the canon of European art history.
Since 2017, a masked figure based on the Talchum (탈춤) has appeared in Surya Gied's work in various forms and media. Talchum is a musical dance theater from the Joseon Dynasty (1392 - 1910) of Korea that criticized the political grievances of the time. Surya Gied's masked figure plays a similar role; she functions as a witness to her own family conflicts as well as those of society as a whole.The figure also makes an appearance in Olevano Romano, Italy, where during her artist residency at Casa Baldi, the artist engages with the 19th-century landscape paintings created there, which were painted exclusively by male artists. In 200 Years, Surya Gied has her masked figure seek out the motifs of the old paintings in the present landscape and restages them as photographs. By appearing in the landscapes, the figure retrospectively becomes part of history,which can be read as a feminist commentary on the canon of European art history.
