Korea & Japan In-focus: MMCA Seoul
These in-focus posts will be mainly based on the places that I went a bit snap happy and MMCA Seoul was another place where this occurred. I found out about MMCA after some googling online and knew that I had to visit. MMCA Seoul is located near the main palace of Seoul - Gyeongbokgung Palace, and was formerly Defence Security Command. There are different exhibitions in each location with different types of tickets being available. I paid roughly about $7 and that ticket allowed me access into the whole gallery - so pretty inexpensive.
The exhibit that I was most looking forward to was the 'Home within Home within Home within Home within Home'. The space is paid for by a Korean shipping company 'Hanjin Shipping' and they invite artist to use the space to create something innovative. Their first artist was Do Ho Suh who wanted to created a piece emphasising the homes of past and present in their differences and similarities. It was amazing to see the piece in real life - seeing a modern exterior but once you walk inside, you can see the a home that was prevalent in the past inside the modern one. I don't know what Do Ho Suh used as his material but it really looked like he sketched it and placed it inside of us. His piece will continue to reside the space until May this year.
Another exhibit that interested me was 'The Aleph Project', which I was told later on actually was held in Sydney previously before. Sadly when I visited, the 'Evolving Spark Network' by Edwin van der Heide that made up part of the 'The Aleph Project' was closed. Seeing the Hah Tesoc portion of the exhibit was really cool to see as it showed how oscillations of sound waves can interfere with one another and create something entirely different. For the main part of the exhibit by Philip Beesley, it was amazing to see all the things that could be created within a new platform but for some reason, I found the shadows created by the pieces to be absolutely amazing to look at.
Unfortunately, I couldn't visit all the exhibitions that were available due to time constraints. Sadly, I couldn't take photos in the majority of exhibitions as they banned photographs. However, MMCA has a great website where they post some great photos of their exhibitions and any information that you may wish to know in English as well as Korean here.















Until next time, stay safe and be happy :)
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