Adrià Julià, Behind the Missing Oh, 2024, Single channel HD video, sound. 49 min 28 sec. Supported by the 13th Seoul Mediacity pre-Biennale. Courtesy of the artist
This film revisits Notes on the Missing Oh (2009-2010), a project exploring the American war film Inchon that was met with disastrous reviews upon its U.S. premiere in 1981, leading to the cancellation of its planned Korean premiere under the revised title Oh! Inchon. Inchon became a monumental box-office flop, receiving heavy criticism in both South Korea and the U.S., and is often remembered today as one of the worst movies ever made. The film's legacy is one of failure due to its unabashed propagandism and desire for heroism, as well as the many financial, artistic and ethical compromises that affected its production from start to finish. In 2009, nearly three decades after its premier, the artist embarked on a quest to gather fragments and first-hand accounts from Korea, the U.S. and Italy—collecting the voices of those who witnessed, participated in, or were affected by the making of this ill-fated endeavor. Some 14 years hence, the artist revisits the elusive Oh! Inchon, resurrecting remnants of his previous project along the way while suggesting other modes of history-telling.
Adrià Julià (b. 1968, Los Angeles, Barcelona)
Film and video installations, photography, performance, and printed matter have been at the core of Adrià Julià’s practice. His solo exhibitions include Not Even the Dead Will Survive at Museum Pinacoteca São Paulo, Think of It as Money! at Contemporary Art Center at University of California Irvine, Conquest of the Useless at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona, Hot Iron at Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Hot Iron Marginalia at Tabakalera in San Sebastian, Indications for Another Place at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, La Villa Basque, Vernon, California at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach as well as Artists Space in New York City, A Means of Passing the Time at LAXART in Los Angeles, Notes on the Missing Oh at Project Art Centre in Dublin. Julià has also participated in group shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid at Witte de With in Rotterdam, at De Appel in Amsterdam, at the Generali Foundation in Vienna, and at the Akademie der Künstein Berlin. He participated in the 9th Lyon Biennial, the 29th São Paulo Biennial, the 7th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, the Jakarta Biennale XIII, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, as well as media city seoul 2010 Trust.
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