These shifts have begun to draw the eye of major international art world players, even as other cities like Seoul, which has seen a quantity of Western galleries announce forthcoming outposts and can launch a model new iteration of Frieze there in September. Another inventive strategy entails questioning the authority and authenticity of archives by stating their inherent biases. Between 1989 and 2004, Walid Raad developed a set of both discovered and fabricated materials—documents, notebooks, photographs, news clippings, interview transcripts, and videos—related to the Lebanese Civil War (1975–91). For institutional critique artists, research became a key means to analyze and…

These shifts have begun to draw the eye of major international art world players, even as other cities like Seoul, which has seen a quantity of Western galleries announce forthcoming outposts and can launch a model new iteration of Frieze there in September. Another inventive strategy entails questioning the authority and authenticity of archives by stating their inherent biases. Between 1989 and 2004, Walid Raad developed a set of both discovered and fabricated materials—documents, notebooks, photographs, news clippings, interview transcripts, and videos—related to the Lebanese Civil War (1975–91). For institutional critique artists, research became a key means to analyze and…