Installation view of “B/W SIGNALS” ©Museumhead
Museumhead
presents the special exhibition “B/W SIGNALS” on view through October 31. This
exhibition features 10 artists— GWON Doyeon, KEUM Hyewon, KIM Chunsoo, KIM
Taedong, KIM Hyoyeon, NOH Suntag, LEE Hyunmoo, HONG Jiyoung, HONG Jin-hwon, and
HWANG Yezoi—whose works consist of black-and-white photography.
The
exhibition aims to reconsider black-and-white photography as a medium, while
critically reflecting on the function of divided and polarized images in
today’s world. “B/W SIGNALS” diagnoses the 'age of division,' where separation
and hatred are fueled, and questions how images contribute to this current
reality.
KIM Hyoyeon, My Western America 014, 2015 ©Museumhead
The 'black and white' referenced in the exhibition suggests the movement of constantly crossing and navigating the divide between the two. Centered on photography as a medium that exists between objective truth and subjective immersion, between manipulated falsehoods and belief, it perceives images as ‘disguised, mismatched, and questioned.’ Through this lens, black-and-white photographs are presented as expressions of uncertain potential.
