Please join us for the LA launch of Liminal Figures, co-published by The Floorplan and GYOPO. The afternoon will include a conversation between some of the artists and writers featured in the book followed by a reception.

Liminal Figures is an anthology of interviews with fifteen artists and collectives whose practices unfold across shifting cultural, geographic, and linguistic contexts. The publication examines how a generation of artists born in the 1980s and 1990s works within conditions of movement, translation, and multiple forms of belonging. Featured artists include Jesse Chun, Johanna Hedva, Skye Jin, Lotus L. Kang, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, YoungEun Kim, HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander, Heesoo Kwon, Hyeok Lee, Jeewi Lee, Maia Ruth Lee, Na Mira, Gala Porras-Kim, TJ Shin, and Rachel Youn.

Developed as a continuation of the inquiry begun with K-Artists (2023)—the first English-language anthology of interviews with forty-seven emerging Korean artists—Liminal Figures does not seek to extend or reinforce a categorical frame. Instead, it moves away from fixed identifiers to examine how in-between conditions are lived, negotiated, and produced through artistic practice.

The publication is co-authored by Hyunjoo Byeon and Je Yun Moon, who developed this project through sustained dialogue with a younger generation of diasporic Korean artists whose practices most compellingly inhabit and work through unstable positions. The collaboration with GYOPO further expands this perspective, approaching diaspora not as a singular narrative, but as a range of lived conditions shaped by migration, rupture, and possibility.

Liminal Figures Book Launch Program

with artists Johanna Hedva, Heesoo Kwon, Diana Seohyung Lee, Na Mira, and TJ Shin

Team Members