Louis Vuitton is proud to present: "WOMAD CODE: The Eye of Korean Women Artists", an exhibition featuring two Korean female artists: Lee Ji Yen and Kim Ji Eun at the Espace Louis Vuitton Art Gallery Hong Kong. Curated by Li Dachong, the exhibition focuses on nomadic culture and explores the transition of identity for Korean women.  The term “womad code” is used to explain the two artists’ lifestyle of working and travelling outside of Korea, which appears to be both appealing and controversial as they break away from traditional lifestyles. The two artists have changed their art perception from power inequality that existed between men and women to the inequality of treatment that exists in modern society.  Themes such as: political issues, history and cultural events are reflected upon their works. Their criticism and postmodern thoughts shed light to political changes and propose new meanings to such issues.

Kim Ji-Eun began to rethink the meaning of development and to reconsider cities as whole organic systems through the study of the history and suburbanization of Detroit. The way of paper-cut collage with construction garbage and other miscellaneous household materials well reflects her psychological position as an occupant of two different cultures.

Lee Ji-Yen’s collage is not depicting a space but accumulating different times. In other words, multiple time-zones create an imaginary space where fragments of different times exist in the same space. The result is an amazingly spectacle that denies boundary between beginning and ending, center and periphery, individuality and collectivity, privacy and publicity, and local identity and global identity.

The “Womad Code” Exhibition opens on 10 October and continues until February 2013. The opening hours for this event will be from 10:00am to 10:00pm daily.