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© John Hansard Gallery
Mandy Merzaban: Fake Love & Institutional Longing (BTS)
28 April 2026 to 5 September 2026
Mandy Merzaban blends poetry, cyanotypes and K-pop sound art with colonial-era archives, using BTS Fake Love as a lens on Orientalism, power and diasporic longing.
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This April in our Mezzanine Gallery, we are excited to present a new exhibition by Mandy Merzaban. Fake Love & Institutional Longing (BTS) is a multimedia poetry project about how Orientalism, the West's destructive imaginary of the 'East', changes form over time: from masking itself in contemporary culture and institutions within neoliberalism to love and longing within diasporic experience. The project unravels within the magnetic aura and altar of K-pop, choreography, and sonic artifacts,...
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