LAYERED MEDIUM: WE ARE IN OPEN CIRCUITS EXHIBITION

This landmark exhibition, showcasing works from the Seoul Museum of Art’s collection, tells the story of the radical Korean contemporary art scene and its legacy of material and conceptual combination, exchange, hybridity, and innovation. Building upon the exhibition SeMA Omnibus: At the End of the World Split Endlessly, a new contextual framing creates dynamic circuits across generations of artists, and between Seoul and Abu Dhabi. Moving through layered, intersecting mediums, the works shift from the intimate to the global, with perspectives on the past, present and future.

The exhibition begins with the immediate sensory experiences of the body, intersecting with social constructs of gender, nationality, and identity. From there it connects to cultural narratives of history and tradition before engaging with contemporary spatial realities of rapid urbanisation and precarious ecologies. Through juxtapositions and layering of media as both matter and atmosphere, the exhibition traverses the fluid boundaries of our existence in what Nam June Paik described as ‘open circuits’, where consciousness, technology and art create flows of connection and meaning.

16 May - 30 June 2025

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