[News] "Connecting Bodies - Asian Women Artists" Exhibition Explores 'Women, Body, Art' Through Asian Women Artists

The exhibition Connecting Bodies - Asian Women Artists, which opens on the 3rd at the Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, focuses on the value of communication and connection through the body, and offers a fresh examination of the contemporary significance of Asian women’s art.

This exhibition highlights works by major female artists from 11 Asian countries, revealing the experiences of cultural otherness inscribed on the body within the geographical and political context of Asia—where patriarchy, nationalism, and state ideologies have been reproduced. It questions modernity through these artistic expressions.

Part 1, "Choreograph Life," features PARK Youngsook's photographic works that resurrect women erased under the guise of witchcraft, as well as paintings by JUNG Kangja and Tanaka Atsuko that address the subjectivity of women in Asian urban spaces influenced by the rise of capitalism and technology from the 1950s to the 1970s.

September 3, 2024