LAST CHANCE Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits

Subtitled explicitly ‘Contemporary Art from Korea, 1960s to Today’, this exhibition is a selection of works from the Seoul Museum of Art, curated by SeMA’s Kyung-Hwan Yeo and Maya El Khalil for the Abu Dhabi Festival, and it aims to cover the “legacy of material and conceptual combination, exchange, hybridity, and innovation” in the radical Korean contemporary art scene.

The title echoes Nam June Paik’s vision of ‘open circuits’, where connection and meaning flow beyond boundaries; so the exhibition immerses the viewer in “the fluid intersections of consciousness, technology, and art”, specifically showing “how artists work with varied technologies to intervene in, interpret and mediate different scales of experience, from the individual, the archival and the collective, to the abstract and yet to become …”