Namjoon’s speech at the RM x SFMOMA media conference!🥹🥹
🐨: Hello! Good afternoon. Annyeonghaseyo (hi)
🐨: Thank you for coming sincerely!
🐨: Alright. It's been a while that I've made a speech, so yeah…
🐨: Hello, my name is RM! This is my debut as a co-curator. And I'm nervous. Okay, I'm gonna start.
🐨: So, first of all, I'm a very very confused person. You could figure it out later
🐨: Oh, thank you for the music! Thank you!
🐨: I think I revised the speech about like ten times but somehow the more I worked on it, the more confused I became like always.
🐨: When I first started going to museums eight years ago, when I first started looking at art, of course I never imagined that a day like this would come.
🐨: Over the years I've talked a lot about things like the personal and the universal, East, West, Modern, Contemporary. But now that this exhibition is actually about to open I suddenly find myself thinking “Well, does any of that really matter?” Maybe it just needs to be a good, new and an interesting exhibition.
🐨: Two years ago I was in the military. I first got a serious proposal from SFMOMA and I loved it! Of course, since I was in the military at that time maybe I would have been happy with any kind of proposal coming from San Francisco.
🐨: Yeah, but I also thought it could be a good experience before I someday open a kind of space I dream of. And I also thought at a place with this kind of scale and stature, maybe I could borrow someone else's spaces and try something fun.
🐨: So I started this with an innocent heart. I just didn't know that this innocence would eventually make me write, erase, rewrite hundreds of labels and labels.
🐨: As I'm standing here talking to you, I still feel like I'm always drifting and floating somewhere, whether I'm in the U.S. or even when I'm in Seoul where I was born and raised. And, you know, it's not a very pleasant feeling.
🐨: So I think I've leaned on art a lot because of that feeling. Art and music, their language and medium might be slightly different, but they're the same because they both try to say something.
🐨: And also I liked collecting things ever since I was young, and at the same time I do feel guilty about it. Like, “do I really need to carry like so many unnecessary things that I don't even need?” “have I ended up becoming just a boring rich snore?” Well, maybe. Okay. But I thought it would be nice if other people could see those as well. And that's why I wanted to show the people my collection.
🐨: A lot of works in my collection are by Korean modern and contemporary artists. And I'm sure many of those names are still very unfamiliar outside Korea.
🐨: Over the past few years I've seen a lot of other people's collections and I came to think that there aren't many things that show a person like more honestly than a collection they've built over like a long period of time, spending their money, their life, their effort and even giving the walls of their own home. And in that term I guess this exhibition is a pretty long introduction of myself.
🐨: And I feel embarrassed kinda but the thing is sometimes I don't really know why I collected all these things. So I just named one of the sections, “I don’t know but I like it.” That's my honest feeling.
🐨: Likewise I always feel my own limits. Sometimes I feel incredibly proud of myself then incredibly embarrassed by myself, back and forth. In the end I realized I can't really be anything more than just myself.
🐨: So there were two questions that mattered most to me. One was, “Does it move me really?” And another was, “Right now, in 2026, does this artist and does this work still have something to tell us?”
🐨: In an age where everything is consumed so fast, I believe the attitudes of the some of the past artists can resonate even more deeply today.
#RMxSFMOMA
Rapist Matthew Ingalls has been terminated by Data Annotation Tech
Rapist Diego Sarabia has been terminated by Wells Fargo..
Keep the pressure on.
FOOT ON THE GAS. NO BRAKES..
UPDATE: Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, has been fired from his job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation
These privileged frat bros gang graped a girl and invited others to join in.
The story was buried, only two were expelled (Cornell suspensions are for genocide protestors) and we are only hearing about it now because the victim is suing.
Cornell protected them, the police protected them, the system protected them.
This the Epstein class. This is how it’s bred.
During the extortion incident against other members
Company 🏢 that immediately issued a statement
Now where'd he go?
Please issue a statement like that immediately‼️
PROTECT YOUR ARTIST
BIGHIT AND HYBE TAKE ACTION
#Protect Taehyung #ProtectYourArtist
Please do not stop talking about this
We urge @BIGHIT_MUSIC@HYBEOFFICIALtwt to take urgent action and make BTS V's safety their utmost priority following these threats of physical harm
PROTECT TAEHYUNG
BIGHIT AND HYBE TAKE ACTION
#ProtectTaehyung#ProtectYourArtist
🚨 MAXIMUM ALERT, REPORT AND SUE THESE ACCOUNTS IMMEDIATELY 🚨
The sickness from these accounts has crossed every legal and human boundary imaginable. We have profiles explicitly wishing death upon Taehyung, spreading disgusting hate speech, threatening acid attacks, and inciting physical violence against him in Latin America! This is not online drama; THIS IS A SERIOUS CRIME AND A DIRECT THREAT TO HIS LIFE
Look at these unhinged, psychopathic accounts:
@ jasonrrcb & @ lupitajikookbrazil78: Spamming "TAEHYUNG DIE" and pushing violent threats regarding his visit to Brazil
only-honey-jikook (helga) / @ king.jj.kingpj: Inciting graphic physical violence and utter insanity against Taehyung
@BIGHIT_MUSIC@bts_bighit@HYBEOFFICIALtwt Your silence in the face of literal death threats and criminal intent is horrifying! We demand that you track their IPs, identify these individuals, and press criminal charges immediately
Ticketmaster and local authorities MUST identify and PERMANENTLY BAN these criminals from stepping anywhere near a venue
Block, mass report, and forward all screenshots to BigHit’s legal team RIGHT NOW
PROTECT TAEHYUNG
PROTECT YOUR ARTIST
BIGHIT AND HYBE TAKE ACTION
#ProtectTaehyung #ProtectYourArtist #BIGHITMUSIC #HYBE
Rape victim k!lled her rapist after his release.
She got arrested and her statement was -
“He raped me, not the State. Who gave you the right to forgive him without consulting me?”
As a Muslim, having your mom alive, healthy, and still here with you is a BLESSINGGGGG. Being able to call her. Hear her voice. Sit with her. Eat with her. Ask her for du’a. Make her laugh. Serve her. Wallahi, don't wait until you lose something to realize how precious it was. Say Alhamdulillah for your mother while you still can.