[News] 'Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists'…130 Works to be Exhibited at the Seoul Branch of MMCA

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), led by Director Kim Sunghee, will open the exhibition Connecting Bodies - Asian Women Artists on the 3rd at the Seoul branch. This large-scale curated exhibition explores the works of major female artists from 11 Asian countries since the 1960s. It focuses on the value of communication and connection through the body from a somatic perspective, offering a new interpretation of the contemporary significance of Asian women's art.

Section 1, titled "Choreograph Life," features works by prominent Asian women artists that express the memories and experiences etched into the body amidst Asia's complex modern history, including colonialism, the Cold War, war, migration, capitalism, and patriarchy. Highlights include PARK Youngsook's photographic works that resurrect women erased under the guise of witchcraft, JUNG Kangja's 1970s paintings related to the subjectivity of women in Asian urban spaces emerging in the 1950s-1970s with the rise of capitalism and technology, and Tanaka Atsuko's 1960s paintings.

September 2, 2024