Artist Talk | 3 October 6-8 pm | Korean Cultural Centre

Please join the curators Sunjung Kim and Jaemin Cha, and participating artists Kyungah HAM, Seung Woo BACK and ZOH Kyung Jin, as they discuss their artistic and academic process. The talk will closely examine the works presented in the exhibition, with the artists who have reflected their investigation on the DMZ.
Artwork by Kyungah HAM and Seung Woo BACK incorporates the physical act of crossing the Korean border, and its underlying complexities such as clash of ideology, bribery, censorship, tension and risk, etc.

While the commissioned embroidery pieces by HAM have been crafted by the North Korean artisans, through brokers smuggling her designs to the North and the finalised pieces back to the South, BACK reminisces his past visit to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital in 2001 as a photographer. From the memory of constant surveillance and censorship during his stay at the North, BACK draws his attention to a familiar face which he discovered from another exhibition, by manipulating the images from 2001 as he enlarges and crops the photographs.

As a professor of landscape architecture, ZOH Kyung Jin’s research varies from urban planning, botany, landscape gardening to community design, and he has consulted numerous public projects. For Negotiating Borders, ZOH presents his archive of the herbarium collected from the DMZ, highlighting the preserved ecosystem as the site-specific significance of the DMZ, allowing viewers to experience the transitioning habitats of the plants through the spatial and temporal record of each specimen.

To RSVP: send an email on info@kccuk.org.uk