Connecting_Unfolding, the premiere exhibition of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, is designed to accentuate art's ever-changing interpretation of and union with life, particularly in this era of disintegrating boundaries and emerging dimensions of convergence and synthesis between disciplines. The exhibition represents a fresh inquiry into the ways in which our individual values and ideas may erupt into the world, igniting communication and forcing us to reassess the value of art in any given era or society. In this context, a team of curators from six countries Eunju Choi, Richard Flood, Ann Gallagher, Yuko Hasegawa, Sook-Kyung Lee, Bernhard Serexhe, and Pooja Sood have gathered to select the seven participating artists: Tacita Dean, Kim Jones, Amar Kanwar, Marc Lee, Lee Mingwei, Kishio Suga, and Minha Yang. In the marvelous new venue of MMCA Seoul, built to represent the intersection of various concepts the traditional and contemporary, history and the present, society and art, the museum's inaugural exhibition focuses on the primary themes of "connecting" and "unfolding," incessant processes through which phenomena perpetually encounter and contact one another to enact new dimensions and possibilities.

The title of the exhibition—Connecting_ Unfolding—connotes an endless array of concepts and ideas, providing an appropriate arena to explore the possibilities of traversing the history of the past and pioneering the new history of the present, and eventually transcending the limits of space altogether. As such, this exhibition exemplifies the human will to overcome any restrictions inherently imposed by time and space. The exhibited works embody the deconstruction of the universal and fixed meaning of an image, allowing new interpretations to ceaselessly unfold depending on the context. This once- in-a-life time exhibition heralds a new era in which museums serve as a nucleus for the ongoing convergence of sense and experience, form and content, and mind and body, and through these infinite interactions, the new art of the future will blossom.

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10,000 Moving Cities, 2013
Interactive Media Installation
© Marc Lee
courtesy of the artist