Azpilicueta’s newly commissioned work Five Spells & A Song looks at migratory movement and the establishment of Korean communities in Buenos Aires, focusing on their significant role in the emergence of the local textile industry beginning in the late 1960s. Such histories of migration and the construction of communities and displaced identities manifest ina series of soft sculptures, composed of garments produced by Korean family businesses in Buenos Aires’ Koreatown, Koreatown, and in the newly commissioned sound piece Una canción coreana [A Korean Song]. Amid this dreamlike atmosphere, textures and colors unite territories, languages, and personal narratives that speak to the fluidity of boundaries and identities in opposition to fixed notions of nationality and territory.
