Installation view of 《Mneme Topos》 ©Seoul Museum of Art
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) is presenting
the special exhibition 《Mneme Topos》 at Seo-Seoul Museum of Art through July 12, marking the opening of
the museum.
The exhibition illuminates the narratives
of time inscribed in both the process of the museum’s construction and the
southwestern districts of Seoul as records of memory. To this end, it
structures the temporalities of the region and the museum in a multilayered
framework, exploring the dynamics that arise between record and memory as
different layers accumulate and overlap.
Installation view of 《Mneme Topos》 ©Seoul Museum of Art
Through the resonance of artworks that
reinterpret—within an artistic context—the identity and lingering scenes of
western Seoul accumulated through processes of creation and disappearance, as
well as the temporal gaps that arise between them, the exhibition constructs a
multilayered structure of time, space, and communal memory surrounding the
establishment of the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art and its environs.
In addition, by placing artworks in
interstitial spaces beyond conventional exhibition areas—such as the museum’s
learning space, lobby, loading dock shutter, and lawn yard—the exhibition
expands conventional notions of exhibition space and proposes new possibilities
for experiencing art.
Participating Artists: Kim
Taedong, VNR, Moojin Brothers, Jisun Shin, ContempoLocal
