Hayoun Kwon</a>, Yang Jung-uk, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/National-Museum-of-Contemporary-Art-Kore/"/Artist/Jiyoung-Yoon/4D62796CB20440A4">Jiyoung Yoon</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/National-Museum-of-Contemporary-Art-Kore/"/Artist/Jane-Jin-Kaisen/4683553BA349CEFD">Jane Jin Kaisen</a>. Jiyoung Yoon uses the language of sculpture to focus on the unseen psychology and attitudes of people facing particular situations and events. Infused with stories, her sculptures portray the dynamism of diverse internal states ranging from irreversible sacrifice to earnest prayer. Hayoun Kwon creates shared experiences of memory by applying virtual reality to realize hitherto unexperienced worlds beyond the constraints of reality. As they expand into the realm of actual viewer experience, her stories cause us to reexamine the concepts of recording and memory. Yang Jung-uk creates moving sculptures connected to the people’s stories that he wishes to see. The repeating movements in his works portray the lives of individuals constantly striving between hardship and hope, causing us to reexamine our ordinary everyday lives. Jane Jin Kaisen depicts the vibrant life of an island based on her wide-ranging research into Jeju Island’s nature, culture, and history and years of collaboration with its local communities. As the movements of different people are connected, new possibilities are explored for the discovery of alternative lineages and formation of new relationships.</p><p>The exhibition offers an opportunity to test our ability to understand and respond to the world. Working with different themes and methods, these artists all share the same in that telling stories that capture aspects of the contemporary. To share these stories with the world, artists have devised unique ways of visual expression. Here, we can ask the following questions: How deeply are we able to look inside ourselves? What are we capable of attempting in order to avoid forgetting? Are we unable to abandon our dreams of a “beautiful life”? How do we connect with our world? Could their perspectives be drawn upon to adopt a different view of the mind, of memory, of our neighbors, or of the world? It is in the hope of achieving something like this that the exhibition initiates its dialogue.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />