Misty Choi – CuppyBreak: A Cup of My Own

Misty Choi’s open_in_new work, CuppyBreak: A Cup of My Own open_in_new, begins with close attention to ordinary gestures: drinking coffee, holding a cup, eating, resting, and moving through a room. Through repetition, she discovers subtle differences within the familiar and considers how everyday experiences accumulate within the body.

The exhibition will culminate in a participatory café created in collaboration with Artists Village Café. Throughout the exhibition, visitors’ movements and interactions within the space will be documented. These accumulated traces will serve as material for a future performance activation, allowing the work to continue evolving in response to the bodies that move through it.

Misty Choi (b. 1993, Seoul) explores disorientation, adaptation, and the unstable relationship between bodies and the environments they inhabit. Through performative sculpture, installation, and social practice, she transforms everyday systems and gestures into unfamiliar encounters that destabilize normative ways of moving, behaving, and relating to space.

CuppyBreak: A Cup of My Own open_in_new is supported in part, through Misty Choi’s open_in_new artist-in-residence at GCAC, by The Segerstrom Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts open_in_new.