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Letter from the curator #4: Tikar and an active intervention into colonial order
In our fourth Letter from the Curator, Jeongwon Seo invites us to explore Yee I-Lann’s TIKAR/MEJA, where traditional woven mats embroidered with tables invite us to rethink height, hierarchy, and modernity. From the ground level, the work asks how colonialism reshaped not only our living spaces, but the way we see and value the world.