Our hesitant dialogues curated by Sunghui Lee, deals with conflicts between generations and lack of their communication. This exhibition seeks to expand the process of communication between young artists in their 30s and their parents. Poor communication often leads to social issues. It is certain that contemporary arts employs failure of communication as its topic, even though a substantial number of artworks tend to look outward. In this exhibition, the artists start a genuine conversation about their arts and lives with their parents – ignored communication partners by their children – despite their most intimate relationship.

Minja Gu, Soyung Lee, Hyungji Park, and Sunghui Lee executed four individual projects, and the processes and the results constructed the exhibition, each manifesting different interrelations with the parents through art practice. As projects progressed, the parents participated to each project bearing different roles such as artists, collaborators or as a representative of an art foundation. To discover new ways of a parent-child relation through art, each artist designed the parents' roles based on her own knowledge on their hobbies, interests and professions.

Participating Artists: 10 artists (4 families)
Soyung Lee, Kilchoon Lee(Soyung's Father), Myungsook Han(Soyung's Mother)
Minja Gu, Gu Jaeyu(Minja's Father), Yang Huijung(Minja's Mother)
Hyungji Park, Changhee Yoo(Hyungji's Mother)
Sunghui Lee, Gocheon Jung Gil Lee(Sunghui's Father)

*image (left)
Boramae Park, 2011
Acrylic on linen, 130x145cm
© Hyungji Park

Courtesy of Artsonje center