Twelve artists from South Korea and Hong Kong, who use the state-of-the art media such as photograph, installations, films, and sound shed light on the space of city where time and space cross each other. Twelve artists who dwell in South Korea and Hong Kong seek to approach metropolis such as Seoul and Hong Kong through sociocultural, psychological, and architectural perspectives, using keywords such as modernization, globalization, metro life, wealth, poverty, development, and capitalism.

The two female curators, Keum Hyun HAN and WONG Wo Bik, search to for a way to approach "city" through ordinary life and philosophy. How the economic mechanism dependent of capitalism influences the lifestyle and thoughts of city population is seen through visual media centered on photography. Six Korean artists including Hanyong KIM, who photographed the sceneries of Seoul since 1950s, have been researching on the visual of the city regularly, and they present new works for this exhibition "Relativity in City." Six Hong Kong artists including anothermountainman present sociocultural phenomenon and economic pressure suffered during the reversion of Hong Kong to China via photographs and motion pictures.

The title of the exhibition, 'Relativity in City' is comprised of three languages: Korean, Chinese, and English. English is used as the "bridging language" in order to explain both South Korea and Hong Kong. The word "relativity" was chosen as the title because even though the space of the city encompasses the crossing of history and time, it can be recognized in various ways depending on the individual.

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Lanwei 05 / Big Business / Guangzhou, 2006
Archival inkjet print
139 x 111 cm / 114 x 91 cm
© anothermountainman