[K-wave] MMCA Exhibition features art by Asian women

Developed as part of an Asian art project by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, an exhibition took place in Seoul showcasing around 130 works of post-1960s art by female artists from 11 Asian countries.

The art pieces portray the perspective of female bodies.

Lee Eun-jin has the story.

This painting of a topless woman strutting in the middle of Myeong-dong in the 1970s represents the women who challenged the status quo of society's gender norms.

Rough-textured concrete letters and unstructured waste wood pieces express the desire to escape institutional and disciplinary suppression.

The elongated fabric rolled out from a structure that embodies a prison symbolizes the solidarity of women fighting for escape.

"This installation of paintings expresses women in colonial Philippines the various social and historical stories of the Philippines, from the perspective of a female artist."

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art collected works that independently express the woman's body, and brought a large-scale exhibition of female Asian artists under the title "Connecting Bodies".

There are more than 130 pieces by female artists from 11 different Asian countries since the 1960s.

This is the first time for some of the works, including the works of Paik Nam-june's wife Kubota Shigeko and Mitsuko Tabe, as well as Chinese artist Guo Peng, to be showcased in Korea.

"This exhibition showcases the artwork of Asian women not by defining it as a typology or ideology, but by telling the many stories of society through the lens of the body."

Rather than organizing works in chronological order, or by artists or region, the exhibition is made up of six thematic sections,

with focus put on the value of communication and connection, expressed through the body.

Lee Eunjin, Arirang News.