Museum Exhibitions
James Rosenquist in Wearing Being: On the Matter of Clothing Group exhibition at Suwon Museum of Art
19 March—8 June 2026
Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
Wearing Being: On the Matter of Clothing, the Suwon Museum of Art’s thematic exhibition for the first half of the year, begins with this familiar act of “wearing.” While clothing often appears to result from personal choice, it has long been shaped by overlapping structures that differentiate gender, class, labor, consumption, individuality, and collectivity. Through garments, outward appearance, and elements that attach to or interact with the body, the exhibition examines how wearing is deeply entangled with social and industrial conditions that have shaped bodily function, sensation, and role. The works presented here address the relationships between norms and institutions, technology and the body, fashion and consumption, drawing attention to the conditions under which clothing is produced, circulated, and worn. In doing so, the exhibition traces how expectations around what one could wear—and what one was expected to wear—have been formed within social structures and conventions.
