The exhibition 'momsal (ache)' started from necessity for new understanding of human body and skin. Body is a communication place and boundary between physical body and mind. As a zone where body, mind and the world meet is a root of human being and physical clue. 

The exhibition consists of three places. The first one shows works by Jeheon Shin and Cui Xianji who cover history and memory, society and person, and a problem of icon.

Works by Sun Haing Lee and Black Jaguar are on view at the second place. Korean artist Black Jaguar shows performance for victims from Gwnagju Democratization Movement. Sun Haing Lee talks about contemporary people's mental state, always feeling nervous and tense even under the blanket. 

In the third exhibition place, works by Seunhoon Lee and Sigalit Landau, Israeli sculptor and video artist are exhibited. Seunhoon Lee's uncomfortable photographs expose embarrassing matters of the contemporary society, where treats human boday as merchandise. Photos and sound in a surgery in video work are warning to the attitude that negatively objectifies the body. Sigalit Landau reveals a boundary issue in Palestine and violence and the war by the government with hegemony through the other place, 'body.' He will show 'Mermaids (Erasing the Border of Azkelon)' (2011) for the first time in Korea. 

Six participating artists have different ways to express but common issue, addressing symptoms of ache, such as politic, social, economic, art, and personal problems in the current society, as starting from body and skin. The exhibition 'momsal' will be a turning point to look back our world and raise a question for wrong thought, defining the body as a symbol or object. 

*image (left)
Sigalit Landau
Mermaids[Erasing the Border of Azkelon], 2011,
Video, 11:03 min, loop,
Courtesy of the artist, In collboration with Maya Brinner