The Art Sonje Center is pleased to host Melvin Moti’s first artist talk in South Korea. On March 30^th at the Offsite Art Sonje, the artist will speak about his recent films of which “the void” is a unifying theme. The films Cosmism (2015), The Eightfold Dot (2013), The Prisoner’s Cinema (2008), E.S.P. (2007) and No Show (2006) will be discussed at large, and the recurring thematic and narrative elements of emptiness, blackness and silence. He will also share his recent interest in Korean experimental film.

About the Artist
Melvin Moti (b. 1977) lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He examines neurological, scientific, and historic processes in relation to visual culture. He has had solo exhibitions at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, New York), Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Mudam (Luxembourg), Wiels (Brussels), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt). he also exhibited Eigengrau (2011) and Eigenlicht (2012) in The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy.

About the Offsite Art Sonje Program
The Art Sonje Center initiates the Offsite Art Sonje Program in January 2016 to continue the museum’s educational role and extend its program venue while the Center is temporarily closed for renovation. Located near the Center, the Offsite Art Sonje hosts talk events on the last Wednesday of each month until the Center reopens in the fall. Its large window wall permits passersby to peer inside the space, blurring the line between inside and outside. The Offsite Art Sonje Program hopes to offer unique and meaningful experiences of museum programs to both the participants and the onlookers.