Sabine Bitter, Luca Buvoli, Raul Cordero,
Sunghee Choi
Jin Soo Kim, Jin Seok Kim, Nicholas Guagnini
Osvaldo Romberg, Karin Schneider, Helmut Weber
Sha Xin Wei, Dongchun Yoon, Young Seok Yoon
Jian Jun Zhang, Tirtza Even, Alfredo Jaar
Ja-young Ku
The Korean Cultural Service is pleased to present
an exhibition entitled DMZ_2000 at Gallery Korea
from September 1 - October 5. Byongsuh Lee, Director
of the Cultural Service, describes the purpose
of this exhibition as one of encouragement towards
furthering the process of the peaceful reunification
of the Korean peninsula.
DMZ_2000 features 18 artists from ten countries,
who have been invited to create perspectives from
which the imaginative, spatial, and political
possibilities of the Korean DMZ (Demilitarized
Zone) may be explored. The exhibition includes
drawing, film, photography, performance, video,
and texts that may also relate to, or draw comparisons
with, national, cultural, and political divisions
that exist elsewhere in the world.
Curator Yu Yeon Kim states: "Divided for
a half century, Korea now looks forward to a national
rebirth as a result of the North and South Summit
in June 2000. The Demilitarized Zone, which has
long symbolized the heartbreaking division of
families and a rift in the Korean national psyche,
may now hopefully be transformed from a barrier
of separation to a 'Zone of Rejoining'."
