Subliminal Projects is pleased to present FOLK MEDIC II: PANACEA, a site-specific collaborative exhibition by the Los Angeles-based FOLK MEDIC collective, Ako Castuera, Hellen Jo, and Kris Chau, together with a group exhibition curated by independent curator and arts writer Essence Harden.

FOLK MEDIC II stands as an extension of the collective’s 2018 exhibition at Subliminal Projects, rooted in healing and friendship. FOLK MEDIC II manifests once again, out of a time of historic upheaval, with focus on remedy, community action, and family.

Coordinated in tandem with FOLK MEDIC II, PANACEA is a group exhibition on care, extending from the ethos of FOLK MEDIC’s work. Panacea asks how medicine is an alchemic act of communal practice and how a physical site might become a salve. Medicine here is harbored in artworks of light, sound, landscape, hue, fibers, flora, and proclamation. PANACEA shifts the reduction of care from its institutionalized and privatized positioning and throttles it towards a cosmology of attributes, attitudes, and generative impulses of the collective. In this form, care provides glimpses of family archives, assemblage objects, ephemera, amalgamative forms, corporeal geographies, and the marks of our Anthropocene. The earliest moments of FOLK MEDIC II were grounded in the question: what was your medicine? Panacea answers in myriad ways, extending outwards and back towards a collectivist approach.

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Adee Roberson, Ako Casteura, Devon Tsuno, Eric Johnson-Acevedo, Eunsoo Jeong, Hellen Jo, Jeffrey Cheung, Josh Cloud, Kris Chau, Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin, Mano Ya, Maria Maea, and Rob Sato.