It is
hard to define “modernity” in just one word because it embodies not only a
specific experience, but also a discourse in which various contradictions,
conflicts, coincidences and discontinuities are intricately entangled.
The New Women exhibit focuses on women at the intersection of these experiences and discourses that construct Korean modernity: the tension between tradition and innovation, the idea that Westernization equals modernization, and the implications of urbanization, imperialism and colonialism.
The exhibition pays special attention to the “new women,” regarded as “ambiguous and dangerous women who are neither gisaeng [artists who worked as entertainers and courtesans] nor students.”
Yielding to external influences from Japan and the West, they were forged through processes of selection and exclusion, translation and imitation, making them perfect displays of the country’s complicated and inconclusive “modernity.”
The exhibition explores these people who permeated images and narratives of colonial modernity through pop culture and modernist art.
The New Women exhibit focuses on women at the intersection of these experiences and discourses that construct Korean modernity: the tension between tradition and innovation, the idea that Westernization equals modernization, and the implications of urbanization, imperialism and colonialism.
The exhibition pays special attention to the “new women,” regarded as “ambiguous and dangerous women who are neither gisaeng [artists who worked as entertainers and courtesans] nor students.”
Yielding to external influences from Japan and the West, they were forged through processes of selection and exclusion, translation and imitation, making them perfect displays of the country’s complicated and inconclusive “modernity.”
The exhibition explores these people who permeated images and narratives of colonial modernity through pop culture and modernist art.
| When | Dec. 21, 2017 ~ April 1, 2018 |
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| Location | The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung |
| Transportation | City Hall Station, exit 1 |
| Contact(TEL/FAX/Email) | +82-2-2022-0600 |
| Website | http://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/ (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese) |