CURRENT EXHIBITION | October 3-December 18, 2019 |
Reception and Panel Discussion on Contemporary Photography in Korea: Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 6 PM
The Korea Society is pleased to present Better Days, a solo exhibition featuring the photography of Korean artist Seunggu Kim.
Better Days is a series of photographs depicting what the artist describes as “Korean spectacles.” South Korea’s rapid development in the last 50 years has caused a lot of social ironies and incongruities, one of them being long working hours with very short period of break. Due to lack of time to travel, many Koreans end up spending holidays mostly around their hometown. The leisure places around Seoul and its suburbs try to entertain their customers by creating events and environments with increasing novelty, and the result is often an interesting blend of nature and artifice.
Using his camera to show the balance between unnatural elements and our own acclimation to the social ironies, Seunggu Kim describes and poses a question about our lifestyle and how we live.
Seunggu Kim graduated from Department of Photography, Sangmyung University in 2007 and received an M.F.A from the School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts in 2012. He had five solo exhibitions in Seoul and had participated in numerous group exhibitions all over the world, including: Aperture Gallery, New York; Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing; Somerset House, London; 72 Gallery, Tokyo; and Filter Space, Chicago. He was the Grand Prix Winner, 2019 Tokyo International Photography Competition, and was named Ones to Watch by British Journal of Photography.
Gallery Hours: M-F 10 AM-4 PM Appointment Necessary
Seunggu Kim
Better Days
October 3-December 18, 2019
Reception and Panel Discussion on Contemporary Photography in Korea: Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 6 PM
@ The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, NYC
Gallery hours: 10 AM - 4:30 PM by appointment
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