Contact is an exhibition that brings together approximately 160 portrait photographs from the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) collection. On display in the Photo Gallery on the first floor is the One-eye Project by Ahn Sang-soo, and on the second floor is Artist Series by Yook Myung-shim and Queen by Lee Sanghyun. 

Ahn’s ‘One.Eye Project’ exhibited in Photo Gallery 1 is work documenting those he met in his everyday life from 1988. As about 100 pieces from this series are displayed along with relevant catalog and notebook information, so we can have an in-depth encounter with his perspective toward the world. Yook’s Artist Series on display in Photo Gallery 2 is one series she has executed for 30 years. The photographs from this series, which came into being as the results of her profound communion with artists, are an implicative showcase of their humane lives. On display also in Gallery 2 is Lee’s installation addressing the life story of Choi Seung-hee, a Korean modern dancer, as its motif. 

We can discover the artists’ intrinsic eye, looking at figures through this exhibition, in which we can appreciate photographs featuring a diversity of persons from all walks of life. While appreciating the show, we can have time to meet figures in the photographs and listen carefully to their stories. 

*image (left)
Sang Hyun Lee
Queen, 1995,
Mixed Media, 240x122x66cm
SeMA Collection